Case 2

Question 1

What are the core businesses of sanergy?

Answer 1

• Non-profit part - deploying Fresh Life Toilets to improving access to hygienic sanitation in Nairobi’s informal settlements sanitation business, largely using a franchisee mode
• For-profit part fertilizer business, with its Evergrow Organic Fertilizer, produced by Farm Star, sold to small- and medium-sized farmers in need of rich soil supplements. This was done using the collected human waste from their toilets

Question 2

How did they tackle the problem?

Answer 2

Dense network of small scale sanitation centers

Low-cost waste collection

Centralized processing facility that efficiently converts waste into electricity, to be sold to the national grid and high-quality organic fertilizer.

Question 3

What are the 3 main components?

Answer 3

The fresh life network

Collecting the waste

Converting the waste