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Dry-separating toilets operate entirely without water and are designed to recycle the valuable nutrients – simply ingenious! With modern dry-separating toilets, this is possible in any city apartment!
Quick and gone :D
Vacuum toilets work via negative pressure and use only 0.5 to 1 liter of water to do your business. You're familiar with these toilets from trains or airplanes. They're also available in comfortable and quiet versions ;)
Poop as usual <3
There are alternatives! Sustainable toilets work as always. Sit down, push it out, wipe, and you're done. Don't forget to wash your hands. Whether it's a vacuum toilet, a dry toilet, or a composting toilet... they're good for the environment, save water, and are more hygienic for you, too!
Trash belong in the bin!
Things like old medications, used hygiene products, or other waste are and always will be waste, and should go in the trash bin. Be careful – don't put it in the toilet!
Biowaste for gold <3
By the way, you can also simply keep organic waste and compost it yourself, for example. There are also other options, such as a bokashi bucket or a worm bin, that transform organic waste into organic gold. This even works in a city apartment!
-> Your scraps can do more.
Kitchen scraps and food waste can be ground up in your sink and, together with your poops, used as what's known as "blackwater". TFrom this valuable fertilizers, biochar, energy, and other products can be made. A good thing !
Give water a second chance.
What if the slightly polluted water from your shower, sink, and dishwasher had its own separate path? This would make it much easier to clean and reuse, for example, for watering plants.
Recycling is really smart.
Second-hand also makes sense when it comes to water, especially when the water is still fine after the first use. Grey water is the water from the kitchen and shower (excluding the toilet) and can be great for watering flowers, for example.
Doubling is better
Having multiple wastewater pipes just makes sense ! One pipe carries greywater (from sinks, showers, and washing machines), while toilet wastewater is directed separately. By the way, additional pipes can also be installed in a house afterward.
No rocket science....
Toilets combined with vacuum systems are no longer science fiction, but are used in airplanes, trains and increasingly in homes.
Clairly: grey – and rainwater
The sewers are in a much better position now. Only rainwater and perhaps some greywater flow through them now (if it isn't better used elsewhere). When heavy rain comes, there's much more space in the sewer, and this reduces the risk of flooding.
More space for ideas <3
The sewer network is so large that there's enough room for other pipes. How about a really good internet connection, for example?!?
Stay Cool-Headed
Greener is the city, better is the air quality and cooler is the urban climate on hot days. This makes the shop owner next door, your grandma, and the butterflies happy :)
Plant-based wastewater treatment ?!?
... sounds strange at first? In fact, plant-based sewage treatment plants are specially planted areas that can be used to clean wastewater. If there is enough space next to houses, they are great for treating greywater.
The Superwall
The super wall, also known as VertiKKA, can do a lot: it is full of plants, produces electricity, cools or heats the house and also cleans the grey water. Wouldn't it be cool if every building had an external wall like this?
Medicine for city trees
Biochar and humus complexes in the soil are excellent water and nutrient reservoirs. They help extend the lifespan of urban trees and keep them in top health. This makes our everyday lives more beautiful. Thanks you biochar! Thanks you humus complexes!
Without detours
Raindrops falling from the sky prefer to seep into the ground where they fall.
Diaper on the Road poop
In addition to dry toilet contents, compostable baby diapers can also be collected by electric trucks. This saves waste disposal costs and creates more space in your waste bin. And the best part… apple trees for future generations grow on the composted product of your little one!
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In this separating toilet, pee and poop are collected separately right in the bowl. This allows each component to be processed and reused in a targeted way.. Properly treated, your urine can even become a great fertilizer!
Back to the roots <3
Dry toilets at festivals or in your own home... Here, your business is done without water and then safely composted and sanitized. This also works comfortably and reliably in large residential complexes.
Stable and honorable Gold <3
Plants take carbon from the air; this is also called photosynthesis ;) But when they decompose uncontrollably or are even burned, they release all that carbon back into the air, thus fueling climate change. Tricky but cool: If the plants are turned into charcoal or if humus complexes are formed through controlled composting, the carbon remains bound for a long, long time.
Bring on the coal!
Biochar is a true all-in-one ! It's created by heating biomass in the absence of oxygen. It can be used in agriculture, construction or to filter water. It also helps save our climate ;)
What was compost again?
Your organic waste, along with garden waste and dry toilet contents, is shredded, mixed, and placed in compost heaps. Then it's tended, checked, measured, and turned—and all this is repeated a few more times so our mini superheroes (the microorganisms :) ) can do their work: breaking down pollutants, breaking down material, and building humus.
Turn your shit into electricity.
Charging your phone with poop?! This works via a biogas plant, where your poop is converted into electricity along with other waste materials. Energy plus, so to speak.
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A fresh wind is blowing here now! Where wastewater used to be treated with effort, now, depending on the need, greywater or rainwater can be stored for later use. Genius, right?
Finally a clear fish soup!
Fortunately, medications and unwanted nutrients no longer end up in the sewer system, and ultimately not in our rivers and lakes. Fish and beavers are happy when their home stays clean!
Urin : it smells like growth
Urine actually contains everything plants need to grow: water, phosphorus, nitrogen. In the right dosage and with proper treatment, it's an excellent fertilizer. A way to turn your pee into fertilizer sounds more complicated than it actually is: stabilize – clean – remove water – done.
-> From toilet to the field
For whom wish a sustainable future, healthy soil is essential. It retains water and nutrients. This gives our potatoes everything they need!
Humus in soil : There's a worm in there.
Humus increases soil fertility and stores carbon (which thus doesn’t turn into CO2). It slowly and steadily releases nutrients to the plants and improves the water and air balance in the soil. Worms and microorganisms love this ;)
Humanure in the soil
Totally forgotten – human waste contains a lot of nutrients that plants can really benefit from. When properly treated, fertilizers made from the contents of dry toilets, comply with all legal limits. Ultimately, nutrient cycles could be closed, and important resources like phosphorus and nitrogen could be recycled... so, in a way, sh**t is actually gold.
Cool thing ;)
eriously burned ! Through carbonization, your poop provides energy and is sanitized. What’s left is nutrient-rich biochar : a luxury villa for soil organisms, food for plants, and a long-term CO2 storage - all in one.
Your shit has more value than you think…
...because it contains valuable plant nutrients. Far too precious not to recycle!
Let’s go to the feces
Thanks to the nutrients from our excretions, we could replace up to 25% of the chemically produced or mined fertilizers in Germany and also contribute to soil improvement and climate protection. Well, let’s go for it, right?