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 ...
The reason dog pee kills grass is that it contains nitrogen. Nitrogen has the power to kill grass, as you’ll know all too well if you’ve ever over-fertilized your lawn. So, if you’ve been finding discolored, unsightly patches on your lawn, nitrates and other salts in your dog’s urine are the culprits.
Does human urine kill grass?
No, human urine does not kill grass if applied after proper dilution and in fewer amounts. It is the best alternative to mineral fertilizers for grass and garden plants.
however, if you pee directly into the grass, it will result in the form of yellow spots in the yard.
The best method to apply the urine is by dilution enough that plants or grass remain safer from the direct effect. The dilution will save the plants from drying and yellowing.
You raise a very good point. Yes, waste-treatment sludge can be used as fertilizer, but I believe most governments ban it for agriculture use, because it can contain traces of toxic elements and heavy metals from whatever people have dumped down their toilets.
Not just the sodium, but the over concentration of nitrogen.
Gives new meaning to the phrase: “P!ss on it.......”
These 'tards want to make Urine Town the Musical a reality.
How about instead of expecting us to all save our urine (and feces, which also can be used for fertilizer), we let the urban centers with their centralized sewage treatment plants worry about it?
That’s not much of an issue because they already are going to filter out the one specific chemical they want from the rest of the urine.
“The logistics of collecting human waste would not be efficient at all...”
Except where we are already collecting it. Which is in the big cities with centralized sewage systems. That cost is already paid, and the infrastructure must be maintained regardless of what they do with the waste. So in that case, it might be feasible.
As I’m mailing off bottles of piss to desperate farmers, please remind me again how Russia is losing the war.
You find the most ... interesting articles to post.
Does this mean that I should go back to tossing my “Mt Dew” bottles out the side window when I am driving a commercial truck on a 14 hour shift?
See post #25
Are you aware what often happens with that?
Thank you, Captain Obvious, but that isn't what the article is advocating:
"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."
Mrs. Augie has a lot of flower beds. I don’t use the same one every time.
Been doing it since before we were married 31 years ago. I think I’m safe. lol
“that isn’t what the article is advocating”
No, but we are allowed to comment on related thoughts that aren’t necessarily exactly what an article is talking about.
You’re allowed to jump off a cliff, too.
Who crapped in your cheerios today?
There are millions of gallons of the stuff at every freeway on ramp, disguised as Gatorade.
I was just making a random observation. You told me that’s allowed.
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