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 ...

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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.

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 ...

MIDDLETOWN — A Vermont-based agency is bringing its efforts to Connecticut to educate people about how easy it is to help divert urine from sanitation systems to conserve water and replace synthetic ...

Engineers have designed a system that uses electricity and waste heat generated by solar panels to extract nitrogen fertiliser from human urine, leaving behind clean wastewater which is safer to ...

Scientists may have found a new tool for growing crops - and it’s something we flush away every day. The Cool Down reports that scientists have completed a study that shows that human urine, once it ...

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 ...

A Dutch design student has recently unveiled his unconventional hydroponic farming project, which notably incorporates his ...

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 ...