Find us by looking for a toilet – leave as a proud P Donor
Today’s agriculture depends on industrial fertilizers containing P, Phosphorus. This non-renewable is currently still obtained from mined Phosphate Rock which is depleting quickly. To secure our future food supplies we need to start to recover P now.
The P-BANK is a public toilet that aims to close the P-cycle. The sanitation system separates Pee from the waste water which simplifies nutrient recovery. This happens directly in the P-BANK. The recovered P is re-used as fertilizer in the P-BANK garden.
In the donor rooms you can comfortably donate in a no-mix toilet or a waterless urinal.
RECOVER
While washing hands, you can peek into the recovery lab. A process of chemical reactions recovers P from Pee safely and hygienically.
Leaving the P-Bank you’ll discover that the recovered P can be successfully reused as an alternative for mined Phosphorus.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to drink some water and apologize to my cat for the string theory lecture.
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There is something sacred about 4 AM.
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It is the only time of day that truly belongs to the sick, the sleepless, and the strange. The rest of the world is unconscious. There are no demands. No emails. No traffic. Just you, the blinking cursor, and the soft hum of the humidifier. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to
But right now, at 4:17 AM, this is the truest thing you have ever written.
But I hope you remember this feeling—not the pain, not the cough, not the sweat. But the strange, unexpected intimacy of the 4am hour. The way it forces you to be honest. The way it reminds you that you are, for all your flaws and fears, still alive.
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It is 4:07 AM. According to the thermometer on my nightstand (which I have started referring to as “the oracle,” though its prophecies are all doom), my body temperature is 101.4. Outside my window, the world is silent. Inside my skull, there is a mariachi band playing a cover of my own heartbeat.
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I am awake because my throat feels like it has been lined with coarse sandpaper, and my body aches with a deep, throbbing fatigue that makes even shifting my weight feel like running a marathon. I am writing this at 4:00 AM, sick with COVID-19.
While the acute panic of the early pandemic years has shifted, the phrase "i wrote this at 4am sick with covid" remains a powerful cultural artifact. It stands as a testament to a period in human history where we were collectively forced to confront our fragility entirely by ourselves.
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donor room
recruiting donors at other facilities
recruiting donors in the bar
rewards after donating
In 2018 the Bauhaus University Weimar and WERKHAUS destinature received funding from the German Federal Environment Foundation (DBU) to develop the first P-BANK. The concept was developed by Anniek Vetter and Sylvia Debit during a semester project at the Bauhaus University Weimar led by Prof. Jörg Londong back in to 2013.
The P-BANK was first used for several months during the 100th anniversary year of Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany 2019. Later that year the P-BANK was at the Tiny Living Festival. The project was presented at the Antenna platform during the Dutch Design Week 2019.
WERKHAUS destinature built the mobile P-Bank from sustainable materials, based on the service and communication designed by Debit and Vetter, including donor-rooms containing the toilet safe! sponsored by Laufen. The recovering system is developed by the B.is, the department of urban water management and sanitation of the Bauhaus University Weimar led by Prof. Jörg Londong, with the support of Vuna and Eawag. Besides consulting Goldeimer supports getting the story and the out there!
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