Researchers have found a new way to use human urine to make fertilizer for agricultural crops. Their discovery is significant because it can better utilize wastewater in cities and on farms without ...

In Lissa Schneckenburger's garden in Brattleboro, Vermont, the tomatoes seem happy; so do the bees. And the reason may be because of how she enriches the garden – with her own family's urine. "When we ...

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The institute, its partners and others in the sustainability industry see the practice — dubbed “peecycling” — as a cheap, easy and less-destructive method than synthetic fertilizer. Rich Earth ...

Waste products like coffee grounds and eggshells are widely used to improve soil health, but there are some more ...

In the last century, synthetic fertilizers have changed the face of the planet. The current world population might be halved ...

BRATTLEBORO, Vermont — In Lissa Schneckenburger's garden in Brattleboro, Vermont, the tomatoes seem happy; so do the bees. And the reason may be because of how she enriches the garden – with her own ...

To test the pee’s efficacy, a team from the UK’s University of Birmingham and France’s L’Institut Agro Montpellier grew four spinach crops over one year—two using different doses of stored human urine ...

Rich Earth Institute sends a pump truck out to donors’ homes to collect urine to treat and turn into fertilizer. When Peter Stickney walks along his cow paddocks in the morning, he notes the scattered ...