The growing need for food has led to a rising demand for fertilizers—especially nitrogen. But making nitrogen fertilizers uses large amounts of fossil fuels, including natural gas, coal, and oil.

Simply swap out synthetic fertilizer for fertilizer made using human urine. Synthetic nitrogen fertilizers are ubiquitous in modern farming due to their affordability and effectiveness, but those ...

Many of us want a lush, green, thriving lawn, but along with the right choice of grass and good mowing habits, it's important to decide which fertilizer is best to use. There's one option that's ...

The reuse of human urine would allow for the production of sustainable fertilizers for urban agriculture, with significant environmental benefits. This is the conclusion of a study conducted by the ...

Bacterial communities in soil are as resilient to human urine as synthetic fertilisers – making recycling the bodily fluid as a fertiliser for agricultural crops a viable proposition, according to a ...

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In a circular economy, human urine can generate fertilizer, energy and wastewater-treatment solutions; shellfish waste becomes powerful carbon-capture tool. The prototype — detailed in a study ...

Did you know that an average adult has sufficient fertiliser to produce a whopping 2.41 tonnes of tomato in a single season? Indeed research in Finland two years ago established that urine produced by ...