DYCLE is one of the founding members of Netsan, Network of Sustainable Sanitation since 2018. Here we like to share the backgrounds of why we engage into this transition with like minded sanitation groups of people with 6 short videos in the frame of Loo:topia Talks.
The first topic: ‘The true cost of sanitation’
Flushing nutrients down the toilet is a linear concept from the 19th century that we can no longer afford. But how do we get back to the circle? Nutrients need to be returned to the fields and back into the city.
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“Here in the city, we consume a lot of nutrients. And until now, we have simply flushed these nutrients down the toilet, for example. But we can no longer afford to do that.”
Anita Beblek
“We need to move away from this problem-oriented thinking towards solutions and how we can put these solutions into practice quickly”
Anita Beblek
“We want to move away from the line and back to the circle!
What do we mean by a nutrient turnaround? A different way of dealing with nutrients, namely leading them in circles.”
Ariane Krause
“We don't fertilise with faeces, but with recycled fertilisers that have human excrement as a source material. There is a recycling process in between!”
Ariane Krause
What is Loo:topia?
In 2023, we were at re:publica in Berlin together with many players in the sanitary transition and contributed to the event with a topic on the sanitary and nutrient transition and made the event blossom with our Loo:topia garden. Part of Loo:topia was the dialogue series ‘Loo:topia Talks’, in which project coordinators, municipal employees, researchers and architects talked about toilets.
Camera and editing: Neven Hillebrands
Production: Anna Goretzki, Ariane Krause, Hannah Bergmann, Cordula Andrä
More information about Loo:topia at rp23 (German):
https://www.naehrstoffwende.org/das-war-die-lootopia-2023