Dean Cameron has just returned from collecting a Global Award at the World Expo in Japan for his Biolytix Wastewater Treatment System.
Biolytix is a chemical free system that uses worms and a range of other selected organisms to break down the waste and convert it into humus. It has the worldwide patent to use this humus as the filter to cleanse the wastewater. This turns the problem (the waste) into the solution (the filter to cleanse the wastewater).
It was the only sewage and greywater recycling system in the world to win. The award is given to “environmental technologies that have the potential to solve global environmental problems.” It has also just won the Queensland Premier’s Smart Award for ‘The Rising Star’ and was a double winner on ABC TV’s ‘The New Inventors’.
The Biolytix Wastewater Treatment System is the most greenhouse friendly and compact biological wastewater treatment system in the world, claims its maker. It converts sewage and wastewater into clean irrigation water, and in the process, can also break down food scraps and sanitary items.
This is good news for today’s ‘effluent’ society. Cameron says his team spent $3 million dollars in research and development to make Australia a leader in water recycling.
“The Biolytix® technology is a giant leap forward for wastewater recycling for households, housing developments and commercial buildings. It makes recycling water more attractive, easier and cheaper. Wastewater recycling will now become the norm.”
The systems can be networked together for housing developments, called Biowater, which costs half as much as conventional sewerage infrastructure, and has the added advantage of recycling water on-site. New developments, as well as the 450,000 Australian homes that are on Sewerage Backlog Programs, will benefit from this intelligent, environmentally friendly technology. Most are currently on septics that are polluting the environment, with studies showing 70 per cent of septics fail within five years of installation. The Biolytix system can also be retrofitted into a (sound) septic tank to provide quality irrigation water.