Kweku Anno

Kweku Anno is a Ghanaian engineer and inventor who has worked on reducing organic waste pollution in Ghana.

In 2004, Kweku Anno began experiments with a "digester box" vermifilter that uses earthworms for decomposing fecal material, similar to vermifilters being produced in Australia and New Zealand, but using a porous concrete filter (PCF) as the filtration substrate.[1] As of 2006, he was selling Biofil Digesters.[2][3] In 2008 he launched his current company, Biological Filters and Composters, Ltd (Biofilcom). As of July 2013, his company had installed over 4,000 Biofil Digesters.[4]

In 2014 the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave a grant to scale up the construction of the biofil toilets that Anno had invented.[4]

Anno holds a BS in mechanical engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and began his career working for Volta Aluminium Company then State Construction, before launching his own engineering company. He is currently the managing director of K. A. Anno Engineering Ltd.[5] and of Biological Filters and Composters Ltd.[6] Anno is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and has served as a counselor in the presidency of the Accra Ghana Lartebiokorshie Stake and as bishop of the Odorkor 1st Ward.[7][8]

References

  1. ↑ Peter Owusu-Antwi; et al. (December 2015). "The Potential of Subsurface Infiltration for the Treatment of Biofil Toilet Technology Effluent" (PDF). Management Studies. Vol. 3 (No. 11-12): 281–299. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  2. ↑ "Engineer Invents Revolutionary Sanitation System".
  3. ↑ Marinov, A. M.; Brebbia, C. A. (15 August 2017). "Ecosystems and Sustainable Development IX". WIT Press – via Google Books.
  4. 1 2 "Bill Gates supports affordable bio-toilets for Ghanaians". mobile.ghanaweb.com.
  5. ↑ WASHplus (21 August 2008). "Ghana – Engineer Invents Revolutionary Sanitation System".
  6. ↑ "Management". www.biofilcom.net.
  7. ↑ "LDS Church News - Pure religion: 'Help yourself'". 15 May 2014. Archived from the original on 15 May 2014.
  8. ↑ "LDS Church News - New stake presidents". www.ldschurchnewsarchive.com.
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