What we flush away every day is full of resources and information. Using high-tech methods, researchers are recovering what seems to be lost from wastewater: energy, raw materials and knowledge.
The sewage treatment plant of the future is both a power plant and a biorefinery. It generates electricity and produces bioplastics, and it also recovers the extremely scarce nutrient phosphorus from wastewater. We go on a scientific treasure hunt in wastewater.
What flows through our sewers every day is much more than just waste. Our wastewater is a complex mixture of substances that contains valuable resources – energy, nutrients and even information about our everyday lives. Researchers around the world are trying to harness this flow.
CINEMA UNDER DEBATE
In addition to the films competing in the different competitive sections, CineEco also programs works that complement the discussion around pressing environmental issues, such as the debate sessions attended by filmmakers and other guests from the field. This year, there are four documentaries that propose to re-dimension the idea of landscape, be it wilderness, water and energy or culture.