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A new research review led by Griffith University suggests using human urine as a fertilizer could significantly boost ...

A select number of toilets in Europe are doing double duty: collecting human waste and then turning the urine component into ...

In Lissa Schneckenburger's garden in Brattleboro, Vermont, the tomatoes seem happy; so do the bees. And the reason may be because of how she enriches the garden – with her own family's urine. "When we ...

The institute, its partners and others in the sustainability industry see the practice — dubbed “peecycling” — as a cheap, easy and less-destructive method than synthetic fertilizer. Rich Earth ...

As a professional gardener, I’m always seeking out new ways to feed my plants. I have steeped nettles in old buckets to brew a nitrogen-rich foliar feed, hoarded banana skins from the trash for a ...

The reuse of human urine would allow for the production of sustainable fertilizers for urban agriculture, with significant environmental benefits. This is the conclusion of a study conducted by the ...

The production of mineral based fertilizers requires a significant amount of energy and relies in part on non-renewable resources such as phosphate rock. Furthermore, the price of mineral fertilizer ...

BRATTLEBORO, Vermont — In Lissa Schneckenburger's garden in Brattleboro, Vermont, the tomatoes seem happy; so do the bees. And the reason may be because of how she enriches the garden – with her own ...

Rich Earth Institute sends a pump truck out to donors’ homes to collect urine to treat and turn into fertilizer. When Peter Stickney walks along his cow paddocks in the morning, he notes the scattered ...

To test the pee’s efficacy, a team from the UK’s University of Birmingham and France’s L’Institut Agro Montpellier grew four spinach crops over one year—two using different doses of stored human urine ...