Down To Earth Matters: Environmentally Responsible Sewage Treatments The following article appeared in the 2011 1st Quarter edition of Futur Arc magazine By Sarah Greenlees We have treated the oceans as a “supermarket and a sewer;” Sylvia Earle, a prominent oceanographer and conservationist, was recently quoted to say in Time magazine [i]. As a result we put at risk the earth’s capacity to balance carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere as well as destroying some of the least explored ecosystems. A recent...

You will recall from my earlier post that we have been building a biogas digester at Camp Tinangol with Camps International. The aim of this prototype was to test whether a biogas digester could be built using unskilled labour, such as gap year students on a Camps International trip. We based our design on the well documented Deenbandhu model with a ferro-cement fixed dome for storing gas under water pressure. Camps International are also working with us on a second digester at the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre...

Text by Billy Dunn Photos by Billy Dunn and Ian Hall The construction of the biogas digester at the new Sun Bear Conservation Centre in Sepilok took a bit of time to get running and underway but after ten days of hard building, pumping, lifting, grafting, sweating, itching, bleeding, plastering, twisting, bending and cutting, it was an impressive achievement thanks to the volunteers from Camps International. After arriving in Sepilok the initial tasks facing the group were not too exciting or enjoyable but hard labour...

By Rory View original post on the Camps International Project Blog Following on from my last post about the Bio Gas collector (Human waste is where its at), I want to now run you through our progress to date. Before I do that below is a sketch drawing of whats involved in the construction. Basically several tanks joined together, a bit of wizardry with water pressure and balancing and a domed lid with a pipe coming off it. Our plan is to build our very own bio gas collector as a prototype so that we can demonstrate...

By Rory View original post on the Camps International Project Blog Its true – human waste is where its at! Its the future you know – dont need any of this extracting gas and oil from the centre of the earth with all its associated detrimental environmental effects – just use what you flush away every day. This is the ultimate in recycling and minimising your impact – so sit back and learn about Bio Gas Collectors – even better sit back and learn whilst contributing to your bio gas collector,...