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Trash or treasure?

Report: Anne-Sophie Brändlin, BerlinJuly 2, 2015

Every day millions of people around the world literally flush away what could be a valuable resource for growing food. But some environmentalists based in Berlin want to change that. They’ve been experimenting with a special form of soil with a secret ingredient: human waste. Only for this nutrient-dense soil to really take off, they first have to tackle the taboo of human waste.

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