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Inhalte aus Trockentoiletten können bedenkenlos kompostiert und zu nährstoffreicher Düngererde verwertet werden. Dies zeigt das seit Februar 2022 laufende Impact Projekt von VaLoo und Kompotoi.

VaLoo is exhibiting at Olma from October 12 to 22. The exhibition shows how nutrient and water cycles can be closed in Switzerland.

VaLoo participated in the consultation on prSIA 2066. It regulates how open spaces can be planned, built and maintained sustainably in the future. Read about VaLoo's positions in this document (German). More information about SIA consultations can be found here.

VaLoo has published its first infographic in collaboration with Circular Economy Switzerland. The infographic shows how circular economy can also be applied to our management of water and nutrients.

The Advocacy Working Group participated on behalf of VaLoo in the consultation on the partial revision of the Environmental Protection Act, which aims to strengthen the circular economy in Switzerland. In the statement, we outlined our vision to promote source separation not only for solid but also for liquid waste streams in order to reduce…

Wie reinigt eine Kläranlage für 200'000 Personen das Abwasser möglichst effizient? Die ARA Thunersee, als eine der modernsten Kläranlagen der Schweiz, lädt uns am Donnerstag, 24. April 2025 zu einer Besichtigung mit anschliessendem Apéro ein.

November 26-30, 2025 in La Bergerie de Villarceaux, near Paris (Chaussy, 95710).

In this course, various ROS approaches will be presented and their potential for wastewater treatment and the circular economy will be discussed.

Join us at the VaLoo Members Assembly 2025 at the beautiful Lake Biel 28 March 2025, 2 pm - 10 pm   Event open to the public! Click here to register.   Dear members and enthusiasts, We are delighted to invite you to our members assembly at the picturesque Lake Biel on March 28th, 2025. Participants…

The Water exhibition showcases innovative approaches from design, architecture, art, and science that offer ways out of the global water crisis.

Toilet Time Travel – General Meeting 22 November 2024, from 4.30 pm to 10 pm   Event open to the public! Click here to register.   Dear members and enthusiasts, We are delighted to invite you to a unique General Meeting, where past and future meet to discuss a subject that concerns us all: the…

Let’s celebrate World Toilet Day and our Finissage   19.11 – Finissage & World Toilet Day (exhibition space)  On ‘World Toilet Day’, VaLoo and the ‘Films for future Festival’ invite you to the screening of the film ‘Holy Shit – Saving the world with shit’. Before the film screening, there will be a seminar on…

Martinimarkt – Stadtgärtnerei Exhibition currently visible every day at the Stadtgärtnerei. ‘Like solar technology 50 years ago’ – not all questions and challenges have been solved yet. At the events surrounding the exhibition, you can talk to pioneers from research and practice and find out more about current developments. The event and the exhibition are…

Komm mit uns in die Berge! Am Freitagabend, 18. Oktober 2024 fahren wir ins Riemenstaldnertal und schauen uns die neue stromlose Tropfkörper-Kläranlage einer der meistbesuchten Hütten des Schweizer Alpenclubs an. Uns erwarten aber nicht nur üble Gerüche, denn während der Führung wird für uns ein feines Nachtessen zubereitet. Programm: Treffpunkt 16:10 bei der Talstation der…

Zur Sonnenwende am 21. Juni 2024 laden wir euch zu einer Führung auf dem Balmeggberg ein: vor Ort erleben wir, wie der Hof Kreisläufe schliesst, z.B. mit einem Hochleistungs-Wurmfilter, einer Kompost-Toilette oder einer Pflanzenkläranlage, die schon seit vielen Jahren das Abwasser des Betriebs einwandfrei reinigt.

ZHAW and VaLoo, are organizing a workshop in the KREIS-Haus research project.

On World Water Day - March 21, 2024 - Eawag-Sandec, Blue Communities Switzerland, the Reformed Church of Zurich and VaLoo invite you to the Water Church in Zurich! We shine the Flushlight on our daily business and what happens to it after flushing. Flush and go was yesterday!

From November 9 to 12, 2023, the first "Connect the Networks" congress will take place in Zurich. For the first time, the three national networks for resource-based sanitation systems RAE (France), NetSan (Germany) and VaLoo (Switzerland) will meet on a big occasion.

We are pleased to announce that RAE (F), NetSan (D) and VaLoo (CH) are setting up a joint meeting from November 10 to 12 to meet, inspire and motivate each other.

ZHAW and VaLoo, are organizing a workshop in the KREIS-Haus research project.

The next General Assembly of VaLoo will be held in Lausanne on March 24, 2023 at 4 pm. Prior to the meeting, working group meetings will be held.