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Videos about our involvement in P2Green

Next week, we’re attending P2Green’s 1st cross-fertilization workshop hosted in Malaga, Spain, which is one of the project’s three pilot regions managed by Bioazul. P2Green is an EU-project we’re part of that is aiming to foster a circular material flow system between urban and rural areas and thereby restoring the coupling of the water-agri-food system. […]

What do farmers think of human urine as a fertilizer?

Hi, my name is Nicola Parfitt and I am Sanitation360’s newest employee, yippie! Writing this feels quite surreal as it wasn’t that long ago I was just a master’s student, spamming Sanitation360’s CEO with emails, hoping I could write my thesis in collaboration with her. And now, here I am, working full time for a […]

2023’s Barley Harvest Results

We can finally share the results of this years barley harvest & we couldn’t be happier! For a few years now, we’ve been running field trials where we’ve been growing barley on the island of Gotland (Sweden) with our urine fertilizer. Every year, we also run trials with a conventional mineral fertilizer as well as […]

Baltic Sea Day Celebrations

Happy B-Day to the Baltic Sea!   Click here to watch Sanitation360 present & answer questions from investors at Baltic Sea Day Video credit: Race for the Baltic _____________________________________________________ On the 31st of August, the Baltic Sea’s very own day, we partook in a lovely event organised by Race for the Baltic in Stockholm, Sweden. […]

Our 2023 Demo Day!

Photo: From the left; Jenna Senecal (CEO of S360), Nicola Parfitt (S360 team member), Prithvi Simha (vice-CEO of S360), Tim Moberg & Chris Pocock (owners of TouchDown – our urinal rental partner). Our 2023 Demo Day!  We’re finally back with some exciting updates on what we’ve been up to lately and in the upcoming months […]

Watch our talk ahead of Stockholm+50

Photo by Petter Alke. From left; Tracy Kimathi, Dr. Jenna Senecal, Elizabeth Nsimadala, Ng’endo Machua-Muniu. The Swedish International Development Cooperation (SIDA) hosted a lovely event to discuss and learn about the looming food crisis from agripreneurs. The day consisted of talks about “experiences from the ground on the agency of farmer and forest associations, indigenous […]

Article in Nature

A dream come true! You can now read about our work on Gotland, as well as about many other important pee-recycling projects, in one of our favourite research journals, Nature. Read it here! Unfortunately, not everyone can access the article. Therefore, we thought we’d share some of our favourite quotes from the article that freelance […]

Recent magazine features

Towards the end of 2020, we were thrilled to be featured in Popular Science and the Modern Farmer as well as having co-authored an article for The Conversation. Read all about our simple process that can turn urine into an agricultural fertilizer. Here’s a short recap of which topics each article covers: Popular Science: wastewater treatment […]

Sanitation360 wins the 2020 SKAPA award for Gotland! 

We are honoured to have been chosen as the winners of the first round of the SKAPA-award, an award designed to celebrate Swedish inventions. Our invention is VIRTSA, a urine drying process that captures the nutrients in liquid urine to reuse them as fertilizer. In the next round, we’ll be going up against inventors from […]