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
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Have a google.
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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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