Urine as fertilizer

Feb 17, 2008 09:41

I've been wondering about this for many years, ever since visiting the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales where they had collection bottles in the gent's loos.

I've just found a report of a study done in Finland that says it works every bit as well as conventional fertilizers and that urine is virtually sterile and thus there is no health ( Read more... )

allotment, gardening

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purple_peril February 17 2008, 11:09:58 UTC
I suspect you already know that you can't use human faeces as-is, right? Too many nasty bugs. You'd need to rot it down for a long while (from six months but about 5 years seems to be optimum says Google). Get a composting loo!

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watervole February 17 2008, 11:47:22 UTC
I keep thinking about a composting loo. Have you seen any designs that are practical for indoor use in a small room?

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ext_9692 February 17 2008, 14:21:18 UTC
Never quite as odor free as the vendors would have you believe...

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purple_peril February 17 2008, 17:12:20 UTC
Apparently most local authorities won't let you have one if sewerage is available.
Have a google.

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purple_peril August 10 2010, 15:31:19 UTC
Only if you're daft enough to ask them.

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johnrw February 17 2008, 17:48:28 UTC
Check out
http://practicalaction.org/ for a lot of ecofriendly/appropriate tech information. It's an interesting site, data available as PDF's but they ask questions about who's wanting the information and who it will benefit- for each download! If you can stand just reading/copy and paste the text version you can bypass this bit. I suspect the data is over simplified and difficulties glossed over (checked out a couple I know something about and they definitely were!)
Also for composting toilets see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composting_toilet

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