Sannitree International

SANNITREE MISSION STATEMENT

2012-02-07T00:14:00.000-08:00

Our mission at Sannitree is to care for the world we live in from the products we make to the ways in which we give back to society.

At Sannitree we strive to set an example for the environmental leadership and responsibility in helping in our small way create a better world through control of organic waste.

Sannitree double action can reduce the population of flies

2011-07-04T02:17:00.000-07:00

According to a new study in the American Journal of Public Health, water population resulting from poor sanitation and sub-standard housing conditions is contributing to a high risk of diarrhoeal diseases in local informal settlements. An analyis of informal settlements in Cape Town found that many individuals do not wash their hands properly, clean their toilets or correctly dispose items soiled with human waste. Research showed that 15% of families in low cost homes placed soiled items in stormed drains, while another 6% disposed of these in the street. Samples of run-off in these regions had strand counts from 750 to 1.6 million per 100 ml of E coli. Overall, 56% of households iliminated their wasre water in a way that was "in appropriate". The study also showed that improper solid waste disposal was a contributing factor to run-off polution aswell. 22% of households responded that they had dumped their waste on the street. 14% percent of participants reported sufferinng at least one bout diarrhoea within two weeks of the study. Worldwide there are about 0,75 annual cases of diarrhoea per person, according to the World Health Organisation. In South Africa, diarrhoeal disease is the eighth leading cause of death. With that in mind, Sannitree a company from Cape Town, has a product which can eliminate the population of flies.
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Water, not gold,but a priceless commodity we must preserve

2011-06-21T00:34:00.000-07:00

To predict that South Africa will run out of drinkable water in a year's time sounds wonderfully surreal, but it isn't as far-fetched as it might seem. Southern Africa has already run out of water. In many regions our city planners already have had to put alternative measures in place. Municipalities that have already set about implememting technolgy such as desalination plants or effluent treatement systems should be commended for doing so. Those who still fighting the general assumption that it is too costly for both the consumer and the local authority to implement should stop dawdling and start running through a few worst-case scenarios. Just ask the municipality of the Karoo town such as Beaufort West what it feels like when your local storage dams dries out because of drought. We believe that it is only once more people have experienced first hand what it feels like to be rationed to the number of times you are to flush your toilet in a week or the quantity of water you can drink, that the message of saving and planning for imminent water shortages will start to sink in. If those in the know were not worrried about our water situation, there would have been no need to form the Stellenbosch University Water Institution to look into issues such as water provision, water management and a sustainable environment. It would have not been neccessary to have established a similar venture, the Water Research Commision. For that matter, there would have not been for Sannitree International to look into issues such as waste water treatment, ownership and ways of conserving water. It a fact that water has an influence on our economic development and growth. It is a fact that South africa, at all levels need to act now to play their part n safe-guarding or precious water. In most South African cities, the biggest water users, wasters and polluters are breweries, hospitals, university campuses and business parks. When planning and building news ones, it should become non-negotiable that more efficient water usage practices form part of the exercise. We need more waterless toilet in our new housing develpoments. We need decentralised water treatement systems in new office parks. We need to recycle our water more. We need to indigenous gardens to flourish. For that matter, Sannitree International has introduced the free flowing waterless urinal valve. The new valve is a breakthrough invention because it not only drastically reduces the use and cost of water but it also far more hygienic that conventioanl systems. It is a completely waterless system, simple retro-fit, air-tightseal and deoderising dome to keep ablution facilities completely odourless and easy to clean. We need to use water sparingly. We need to treat it as a priceless, commodity that it is. If we do not take care of our water now, it will come at too costly price for us. And next year might simply come to soon.

Moon has more water than previously thought in challenge to view of origin

2011-06-15T02:52:00.000-07:00

The moon has more water than scientist once thought, casting doubt on theories of its creation, according a study. Scientists measured seven samples of magma trapped as "melt inclusions." within crystals, according to a paper in the journal science. Lower quantities of water and volatile compounds on the moon, when compared with the earth and other inner planets of the solar system, have long been taken as evidence the moon formed during a gained impact that have enough energy to create seas of magma, according to the Carnegie Institution's Erik Hauri, the study's lead author. Today's finding challenges that view, he said. That findings suggest that the impact from a Mars-sized body that formed the moon was either much hotter or much cooler than previously thought. If the moon impact was cooler, then some material including water wasn't molten and was locked in thee lunar interior. If the was more energy, then the rocks boiled and created a temporary atmosphere, Hauri said. While the atmosphere would have been dense and short-lived, it might have allowed the still-forming earth and moon to exchange water. The presence of water tells us how much potential it has to sustain our life.

Spend a penny in Kenya

2011-05-05T01:56:00.000-07:00

(men's urinals were free of charge!) H. Lewis's Strange Story, mentions: "'Us girls,' she said, 'are going to spend a penny!' " Things changed after the price went up to two pence in the 1970’s.

Spending a penny is an old British saying from the 1850’s, as most women’s public toilets required a penny open the lock. Nowadays you need to spend about 8 cents if you want to ablute in the townships of Nairobi, Kenya. A clever African entrepreneur has spotted a gap and set up a ‘toilet mall’, enabling him to earn his bread and butter from other peoples waste. This is a giant step forward, as Nairobi had sadly become notorious for its famed ‘Kenyan Flying Toilets’. Residents would poo in a plastic shopping bag and swing it around their heads before releasing in their favourite neighbours direction. Fortunately this habit has not caught on locally, probably because our informal toilet needs are taken care of by Sannitree, who are still heavily involved in treating and disposing of waste in a more traditional manner. In fact some amazing opportunities were created for a couple of hard working entrepreneurs that live in the informal sector