Gardeners love a good secret, especially one that turns waste into something wildly useful. Hidden in plain sight sits one of ...

You probably flush a nutrient-rich, renewable fertilizer down the toilet every day: your pee. Human urine can be used as a safe and effective crop fertilizer, researchers said. And studies show using ...

New research shows human urine can be efficiently transformed into nutrient-rich fertilizer using low-energy technology. The ...

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A team of chemists and agriculture specialists has developed a way to transform urea in wastewater, into percarbamide, which can be used as a fertilizer. In their paper published in the journal Nature ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A pair of University of Michigan researchers are putting the “pee” in peony. Rather, they’re putting pee ON peonies. Environmental engineering professors Nancy Love and Krista ...

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 ...

On a mission to transform human urine into an environmentally friendly fertilizer, researchers at the University of Michigan discovered the secret is a little age. Urine is responsible for the ...

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 ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - Want to smell the fragrance of lush peonies this spring? Urine luck. The peak bloom of the Peony Garden in the Nichols Arboretum is typically late May to mid-June. This year, the rows ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You probably flush a nutrient-rich, renewable fertilizer down the toilet every day: your pee. Human urine can be used as a safe ...