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The Many Faces of SOIL

SOIL does a lot. But what exactly do we do, day in and day out? For the past 18 years, SOIL has been evolving, adapting, and growing as an organization in Cap-Haitien. Since our inception, we’ve explored different composting toilet technologies , restructured our business strategy to include a....

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CBSA briefing paper: Unlocking carbon credits for sanitation

In 2020 an exciting study on SOIL’s sanitation solution was published in Nature Climate Change and revealed the groundbreaking climate benefits of our container based sanitation (CBS) service, putting Haiti at the forefront of research at the intersection of sanitation and climate change. The....

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JSTOR: A History of Human Waste As Fertilizers

Photo credit: Getty In eighteenth-century Japan, human waste served a critical role in local agricultural production says JSTOR Daily. Their question in the recent article on sanitation history: can similar solutions help manage waste today? In the 1700s, Japanese community members saw human waste....

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Sanitation for a Rapidly Urbanizing World

Over 700 million people living in urban areas globally currently lack access to even basic sanitation, and without innovation this problem will only get worse. The global urban population is projected to increase by 2.5 billion people by 2050, with much of that growth concentrated in informal....

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