Background:

Carl Lindstrom
In the 1960's Carl Lindstrom helped his parents, Ranken and Rikard Lindstrom, in starting Clivus AB, the first Commercial Composting toilet company, later to become Clivus Multrum AB.  Clivus is the latin word for inclination as Rikard Lindstrom's patent was based on the assumption that COMPOST would slide down the slope at the bottom of the tank and collect in a compost collection compartment and that the "surplus liquid" would all evaporate. Over the years Carl and Clivus customers discovered that any such gliding of compost along the sloping bottom, never occured but that compost had to be pulled out from under the partition manually. CompostEra is the result of some 45 years of learning about what actually happens in the process.

Carl wrote his thesis "MULTRUM" at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH-69), on the thermodynamics of a composting process for organic household wastes. Later with funding from the then STU (the Board for Technical Development for development of integrated composting and greywater treatment in different households. From 72-75 he was employed by the Swedish National Environmental Protection Board, in the R&D department.  From 1975 to 1977 he served as the environmental attaché at Swedish Embassy in Wash. DC.  After 1977 he worked in different capacities with the development of Long Term Composting system 

Stig Bengtsson 
Stig is an accomplished architect, who never shrinks from difficult challenges.  He is one of the leading experts in the 3D Archi-CAD and has traveled around the world as an ambassador for using 3D presentations as a visualazation tool.  In Sweden he is known for several green architectural designs. 

In Sweden, we have worked hard on developing simple yet powerful solutions to the fragile island environments and their need for non-polluting, waterless sanitation.  The Swedish archipelago, with its rocky and exotic vegetation, had a system of latrine collection which now, due to national legislation, is about to end, and CompostEra can provide the crucial technology for on-site treatment without polluting the coastal waters or the groundwater used for drinking. 

Enclosed Long-Term Composting is the ideal replacement for the standard flush water toilet.  It eliminates pollution from toilet wastes while it preserves and makes available the valuable plant nutrients contained in human waste for local use. The equipment is priced to suit limited economic budgets for these coastal areas and the technology is nearly fail proof with very low maintenance requirements.  No heating elements that can burn out, no water requirements that can drip, clog, freeze and fail mechanically.  It has sufficient volume and capacity to accomplish long-term composting of the toilet waste, allowing users sufficient time should anything need a servicing.  We also have many years of experience designing grey water systems.