ApocaDocs: Gee Whiz: Human Urine Is Shown to Be an Effective Agricultural Fertilizer

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Posted Sun Jul 25 2010: from Scientific American:


	Gee Whiz: Human Urine Is Shown to Be an Effective Agricultural Fertilizer http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1280073141 ...environmental scientists at the University of Kuopio in Finland, grew the beets as an experiment in sustainable fertilization. They nourished the root vegetables with a combination of urine and wood ash, which they found worked as well as traditional mineral fertilizer... Urine is chock full of nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus, which are the nutrients plants need to thrive--and the main ingredients in common mineral fertilizers. There is, of course, a steady supply of this man-made plant food: an adult on a typical Western diet urinates about 500 liters a year, enough to fill three standard bathtubs. And despite the gross-out potential, urine is practically sterile when it leaves the body....

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