Avantu: producers of natural micro-organisms; biodegrading wastes.

Every day, 1,000 people die in South Africa from waterborne diseases caused by uncontrolled sanitation.

Avantu has the solution: the simplest, most economical, most environmentally friendly answer to our sanitation problems.

There are approximately 990 sewage treatment works in South Africa. According to the Department of Water Affairs (DWA) only 32 of these works’ final effluent conforms to DWA discharge standards. The other 97% are responsible for the contamination and pollution of South Africa’s rivers, dams, lakes and aquifers.

The HloHlo Oxidation Ponds, Maseru, Lesotho

Before treatment	After treatment

Bio-augmentation

Avantu takes care of VIP toilets, congested septic tanks and all forms of problematic sewerage treatment works, including contaminated dams, lakes and rivers. In addition Avantu has micro-organisms that eliminate malaria and blackfly larvae and thus assist in malaria and waterborne disease control programmes.

How we do it

Avantu has produced a number of blends of natural, harmless micro-organisms chosen for their specific abilities to accelerate the biodegradation process of human, vegetable, animal, fibrous and hydrocarbon waste.

Some of the microbes used have unique capabilities of converting an anaerobic to an aerobic environment, thereby eliminating waterborne diseases such as dysentery, diarrhoea and typhoid.

Other microbes in the products compete with the cholera bacterium for the same food source, starving the cholera bacterium and preventing it from spreading.

Two of the Avantu products contain specific substrate microbes that produce a crystalline toxin that kills  mosquito and blackfly larvae.

Rectifing South Africa’s Sewage Crisis by Harnessing Electrical Energy from Sewage Sludge, Old Plastic, Used Tyres and Hospital & Domestic Waste

A Joint Venture between Avantu and a German company, Chemapanhas addresses the dilemma of disposal of sewage sludge, old tyres, plastic and waste. This technology will remedy the sewage and landfill crisis simultaneously offering the opportunity to open the doors to a constellation of electricity generating systems housed at sewage plants capable of meeting the decentralised demand for energy more especially in rural communities.

Avantu bio-augmentation has come of age

It has been acknowledged by the South African Department of Water Affairs and Forestry as well as global organisations such as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNICEF.

The healthy, environmentally sustainable solution to all South Africa’s sewerage and sanitation challenges.

For any further info, please don't hesitate to contact us:

Tel: 0861 AVANTU ( 0861 282 688 )

Fax: 011 803 9287

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