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 ...
I didn’t, but if imagining that I did makes you less of a douche, then go right ahead.
In the USAF in Aviano Italy in the late 70s every spring you could smell the fertilizer!-)
Birth control will render it poisonous.
Yeah, I thought of that one too.
Samson Blood donors that way, please.
Donor Oh thank you very much (joins the line).
Samson Thank you. (Grimshaw comes up to him and whispers in his ear, Samson looks at him, slightly surprised) What?
(Grimshaw whispers again) No. No, I'm sorry but no.
(Grimshaw whispers again) No, you may not give urine instead of blood. (Grimshaw whispers again) No, well, I don't care if you want to. (Grimshaw whispers again) No. There is no such thing as a urine bank.
Grimshaw Please.
Samson No. We have no call for it. We've quite enough of it without volunteers coming in here donating it.
Grimshaw Just a specimen.
Samson No, we don't want a specimen. We either want your blood or nothing.
Grimshaw I'll give you some blood if you'll give me...
Samson What?
Grimshaw A thing to do some urine in.
Samson No, no, just go away please.
Note to younger FReepers - this was supposed to be comedy, not prophecy. Comedy. We have slipped through a timewarp into Monty Python World.
Directly peeing on plants is no good. It has to compost and break down into useful nutrients first. Also gets flushed of excess salt during the compost process
Yes, that is what I said, which is quite a bit different from what YOU said that I said.
When i was a kid i fertilized plants and trees without any processing involved.
Why do corps always get involved
Only in Vermont.
Doesn’t the government already run sewage systems? what do they do with it? It’s already conveniently located in a central place
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milorganite
As each adult produces enough pee annually to fertilise 145kg
of wheat, perhaps bodily waste is the answer
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That’s 319 lbs of wheat with whatever this ‘fertilise’ is.
Blah blah blah blah blah.
🙄
Butt butt it’s what plants crave.😏
Nitrate is also one of the ingredients in gun powder because
of it's combustible nature and it's rapid expansion as an explosive.
This was known during The Civil War. When the Union blockade of Southern ports caused a shortage of gunpowder Southern women were enjoined to donate their ''soiled water'' to The Cause so nitrate could be distilled from it. Might explain why my North Carolinian sister-in-law can be a bit feisty at times.
Comment 27 has some interesting ideas about how an individual can make use of human waste for gardens. It would probably have to be a fairly large garden. Adding urine to our water supply is stupid if use as fertilizer is being considered. It is so diluted by the time it reaches the public facility it would be hard to remove, and the addition of meds does not help. Also, there is contamination from both the feces mixed in, and if the facility is connected to the storm water drainage system, many other contaminents found on streets like oil and gas, as well as rotten leaves would end up there.
If you use a funnel to put it into a gallon milk jug, and put the cap back on, why would it be a problem. My husband and I were paid to take part in an experiment and had to provide our daily urine output. The gallon jug system worked just fine. We dropped it at the lab, and they gave us a clean jug for the next day.
Comment 50 also has interesting information on how they have used human waste to manage their organic garden successfully. I had an interesting observation when deer were eating the hostas by my cabin in the country. My husband started peeing around the border of the plot where the hostas were growing. They deer soon stopped coming. He would spread the pee in a line along the edge. He grew up in farm country.
Can one direct it to a lawn or garden?
Martin: Good morning. I’ve been in touch with you about the, er, life insurance...
Feldman: Ah yes, did you bring the um ... the specimen of your um ... and so on, and so on?
Martin: Yes I did. It’s in the car. There’s rather a lot.
Feldman: Good, good.
Martin: Do you really need twelve gallons?
Feldman: No, no, not really.
Martin: Do you test it?
Feldman: No.
Martin: Well, why do you want it?
Feldman: Well, we do it to make sure that you’re serious about wanting insurance, I mean, if you’re not, you won’t spend a couple of months filling up that enormous churn with mmm, so on and so on...
Martin: Shall I bring it in?
Feldman: Good Lord no. Throw it away.
Martin: Throw it away? I was months filling that thing up.
(The sound of the National Anthem starts. They stand to attention. Martin and Feldman mutter to each other, and we hear a reverential voice over.)
Voice Over: And we’ve just heard that Her Majesty the Queen has just tuned into this program and so she is now watching this royal sketch here in this royal set. The actor on the left is wearing the great grey suit of the BBC wardrobe department and the other actor is ... about to deliver the first great royal joke here this royal evening. (the camera pans, Martin following it part way, to show the camera crew and the audience, all standing to attention) Over to the fight you can see the royal cameraman, and behind... Oh, we’ve just heard she’s switched over. She’s watching the ‘News at Ten’.
(Cries of disappointment.)
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