About the Toolbox
To meet global challenges of resource scarcity in growing urban populations, we need to recover and reuse resources in our sanitation waste streams. There is an abundance of scientific research, tools and guidelines about how to implement resource recovery initiatives, but it is scattered across platforms. Practitioners are increasingly seeking to recover water, energy, and nutrients from sanitation and other organic waste streams, but difficulties in accessing actionable information hinder implementation.
The Resource Recovery Toolbox aims to bridge the gap between knowledge and action by collecting and curating tools for planning and implementing resource recovery, to make them more discoverable and accessible to practitioners and decision makers. We believe that digital knowledge management solutions can drive scalable, real-world resource recovery initiatives globally.
This Toolbox was created after engaging with practitioners, organizations and academics in the sanitation, waste management, agriculture, and energy sectors and is designed to suit their needs. The platform is based on innovative knowledge management techniques, includes intuitive navigation and integrates natural language AI search.
We strive for continuous improvement and welcome your feedback.
Credits
The Resource Recovery Toolbox is developed by the Stockholm Environment Institute, in collaboration with the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance, Dotwerkstatt and Baobab Tech. The development of the Toolbox is financed by Formas – the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development.
Suggested citation: “Ddiba, D., Dagerskog, L., Lazzati, S., Soto Trujillo, A., Taylor, R., Marcinkevičiūtė, S., Ochola, B. (2025). Resource Recovery Toolbox. Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)”.
Linnéa Haviland and Mia Shu are acknowledged for graphics design support to the Toolbox, as well as André Eißer (Dotwerkstatt) and Olivier Mills (Baobab Tech) for web development support.
Unless otherwise stated, descriptive summaries of tools, explanatory text, and platform-wide content are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). This means you may share and adapt the material, provided you give appropriate attribution. Individual tools, datasets, images, documents, and other such resources which are linked or hosted on the Toolbox may have their own licences or usage conditions. Users are responsible for checking and respecting the licence specified for each external resource.