King instead of Queen: Florence Welch 2022
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Festival toilets have a certain reputation – many of the mobile houses are hardly usable after only a few hours, for reasons we all know and fear. The Tempelhof Sounds Festival (10th to 12th June, Berlin Tempelhof Airport) now wants to use the toilet for a good cause – as, as it describes itself, “a field test on recycling fertilizers that is unique in Germany”.
The organizers have published a sustainability concept that states how they want to make the music festival as environmentally friendly and humane as possible. They work together with a company that operates “a pilot plant that is unique in Germany” for recycling the contents of dry toilets into high-quality recycling fertilizers. So what we let in the toilets will be used later, as fertile soil. A clear encouragement to everyone to put a bobsleigh on the track.
A “humus sphere” with 100 dry toilets will also be created on the festival site. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research is funding the project, with the hope that after successful laboratory and field tests like these, problems in conventional agriculture can also be solved. Transporting the “Humussphere” toilets to and from the site also saves resources: Thanks to a folding and stacking system, 40 dry toilets can be transported on eight square meters of loading space. Up to 200 toilets are delivered with an articulated lorry, reducing fuel consumption per cabin to 0.175 liters of diesel per 100 km.
The organizers report that they will only use green electricity and that a waste concept will ensure that waste is separated and recycled.
Tempelhof Sounds is presented by MUSIKEXPRESS. The lineup includes The Strokes, Florence + the Machine, Muse, The Libertines and Alt-J.
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