People at the Heart of Change + Ben & bEartha: A Community’s Compost Love Story

This double feature is dedicated to an essential aspect of our special topic of living within planetary boundaries – composting. Focusing on a Zero-waste and Environmental justice project in the city of Durban, South Africa, the heart-warming documentary People at the Heart of Change shows the power of small but local solutions with big impact. Waste-pickers, traders, artists, activists and neighbours come together and prove that if we can slow down long enough to listen to each other, we can lay the groundwork for a more just world.

Ben & bEartha follows the story of passionate composter Ben Bushell of Community Compost, Nelson. Through the inspiring story of Ben and his dedicated composting community, we get to know bEartha, an automatic composting machine that’s about to revolutionise small-scale commercial composting. This inspiring film offers a potentially game-changing approach to making compost on an urban scale.

After the screening, there will be a discussion about waste management in Freiburg with Veit Cornelis of the ASF.