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Blue Responsibility Award: Manufacturing for a Sustainable Terra Preta Sanitation System

With around 40% of the world's population currently lacking basic sanitation, the need for sustainable solutions is urgent. In order to demonstrate the broad range of applications of sustainable manufacturing, the organizers of the 12th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing (GCSM) launched an international competition for sustainable sanitation system design. The GCSM 2014 "Blue Responsibility Award: Manufacturing for a Sustainable Terra Preta Sanitation System" intends to stimulate the development of new sustainable sanitation systems that enable the reuse of human excreta. The objective of the competition is to design a sanitation system that creates the maximum value from what is today considered as waste.

News, documents and latest developments of the competition can be found on the GCSM Award page