Kibera's scarce toilets mean that locals tend to defecate in plastic bags and throw them near the Nairobi river. One man is treating human waste differently, converting it into manure for farmers.
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00:00Our toilet is called the tri-toilet.
00:14It's called the tri-toilet.
00:44We use tri-toilet so that we can harvest the manure.
00:56I mix it with the sawdust soil with the tri-material.
01:10People are welcoming the idea. In fact, they are saying that we should have other toilets so that we can reduce the flying toilets.
01:24The government has allowed us to run the project and to sell to the farmers.
01:29So our manure is used to plant all types of the project, especially food crops.
01:34Food crops, it does well with our manure.
01:39The manure from the shops has chemicals that destroy their soil.
01:45This one week old.
01:49Then this one was three days back.
01:56And also if you can see, you can see it is very wet, which means that it needs more time so that it can be mature.
02:10Here is now where we store the manure that is ready.
02:16We store here. When we get to the market, someone comes to buy from this place.
02:22The feces that we have made it now to be the manure.
02:26You can use it to plant your vegetables and your crops in the farm.