Posted on 06/23/2022 8:16:43 AM PDT by SJackson
Name: Peecycling.
Age: As a term, dates to about 2006; as a practice, centuries old.
Appearance: All yellow.
If this is about peeing while riding a bicycle, I’ve tried it and it doesn’t work. This is about saving and storing your urine.
Why would I want to do that? So the CIA can’t get it? So that it can be recycled.
Recycled as what? Fertiliser. Human urine is a rich source of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. According to the Rich Earth Institute of Vermont, the urine one adult produces in a year – 125 US gallons (473 litres) – is sufficient to grow 320lbs (145kg) of wheat.
That’s a lot of wheat. And pee. Making it an especially welcome idea at a time when industrially produced fertiliser is expensive and in short supply, thanks to sanctions against Russia, where a lot of it comes from.
If I can use my pee to humiliate Putin, then that weird dream I had last week will sort of come true. What’s more, those same nutrients, when flushed into wastewater systems, become contaminants responsible for creating environmentally damaging algal blooms.
So by saving my pee I could help the environment, thwart Russian aggression and produce urine-rich bread? You’d also save about 4,000 US gallons (15,000 litres) of potable water annually, according to the Rich Earth Institute.
Let’s say I wanted to give my urine to a farmer. How would I go about that? If you live in Vermont, you can donate it by the jug. The foundation supplies free funnels and has a collection depot in Brattleboro. It can be “a little sloshy” at first, peecycler Kate Lucy told the New York Times, but you get used to it.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Paris plans to install urine-diverting toilets in 600 new apartments, using the collected pee to fertilise the city’s green spaces
I could see this being forced on us in the US. Probably wouldn't have said that pre Covid. I wonder what a "urine diverting" toilet does.
I have heard that in North Korea, every citizen has a human waste quota they must fulfill.
A Bag-o-Pee.
My mamma always used to say, “Stupid is as stupid does.”
The “Guardian” is in a very deep sleep.
The only problem is that the pharma companies have contaminated the urine of most humans with all kinds of chemicals
What about the smell ?
As always, the left pushes $hit, piss and corruption.
This is the same mentality as recycling.
Sounds good, but “recycled” trash wound up going to landfills anyway.
Commercial fertilizer is made from natural gas and millions of tons are made very efficiently.
The logistics of collecting human waste would not be efficient at all, and would not come anywhere near enough to replace commercial fertilizer.
Or...get a bunch of cows and have a 2fer
The Left gets it’s kicks from making people do stupid things
C/O Joe Biden
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
The average % of sodium in urine is detrimental to most cultivated vegetation
>I wonder what a “urine diverting” toilet does.
Almost certainly it overcomplicates the toilet making it a maintenance headache. Sort of like low-flush toilets, on steroids.
Doesn’t the government already run sewage systems?
what do they do with it?
It’s already conveniently located in a central place
The french use toilets ?
sodium in urine is detrimental to most cultivated vegetation
I was thinking the dog walk at my apts had a lot of dead grass spots.
Oddly enough rotation of crops is still a thing
Good ‘ol Democrats. Won’t be long before we’re North Korea where they all take dumps in buckets and then spread it on their agricultural land.
Some Democrat probably already has this draft law written somewhere and ready to go in the name of “green”.
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