What happens to the food we digest after it leaves our bodies? Is excrement waste or a useful resource? Looking for answers, Rubén Abruña travels through sixteen cities on four continents and finds out that what is supposed to be a solution – that is being applied worldwide – is a living nightmare. We use what remains from the treatment process as a plant fertilizer that contains heavy metals and toxic chemicals. But there are other options: from the Poop Pirates in Uganda to decentralised sewage treatment plants in Hamburg, Rubén Abruña learns how human faeces can be turned into electricity and fertiliser. Could our excrement be utilised to feed the world and slow down the climate crisis?
Gefolgt von Filmgespräch mit / Followed by film talk with Florian Augustin and Valentin Thurn
Gefolgt von Filmgespräch mit / Followed by film talk with Florian Augustin and Valentin Thurn
