12 years ago Dean Cameron was examining the breakdown of cowpats and dead cows in the paddock. He was also studying the creatures breaking down waste on river edges. While scientists were trying to solve the wastewater treatment riddle by analysing oxygen diffusion in water in their laboratories, Cameron was looking to nature for the answer. He has now made a worldwide break through in wastewater recycling that won six prestigious awards (Global, National and State) in the last year alone.
One of these was a Global Environmental Technology Award at the World Expo in Japan for the Biolytix Wastewater Treatment System. It was the only sewage and grey water recycling system in the world to win. The Award is given to “environmental technologies that have the potential to solve global environmental problems.”
Biolytix also won:
- The ATSE Clunies Ross Award for Science Innovation 2006 - (some call it a “mini-Nobel Prize") - for the inventor of Biolytix and visionary - Dean Cameron.
- A Premier of Queensland’s Smart State Business Award
- The EPA’s Sustainable Industries Award (QLD) 2006- for Innovative Technology
- A Green Plumber’s National Award
- Australian Technology Showcase (QLD) - Member of the Year Award 2006
- A Global Environmental Technology Award at the World Expo in Japan.
The Biolytix Wastewater Treatment System converts sewage and wastewater into clean irrigation water. In the process it can also break down food scraps and sanitary items.
This is good news for today’s effluent society. Dean Cameron says, “We 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, towns and commercial buildings. It makes recycling water more attractive, easier and cheaper. Wastewater recycling will now become the norm.”
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 smartly turns the problem (the waste) into the solution (the filter to cleanse the wastewater).
Twelve years and many cowpats later, Dean’s hunch turned out to be right.