These problems will only get worse as long we continue to design solutions based on false premises. If we change our linear attitudes of resources and wastes, towards a circular one, we can reconnect these resources and wastes, reduce our problems and advance towards a recycling society. Sanitation can be a technology that connects the two. Unfortunately, half of humanity does not have access to any type of sanitation. This is, of course, a fundamental denial of human dignity, and it is a main cause of death from infectious disease in two to three million children every year. The rest of humanity relies on conventional approaches to sanitation, which fall into one of two categories: waterborne systems or pit latrines. The design of “flush and discharge” and “drop and store” technologies