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Nitrified Human #Urine as a #Sustainable and Socially Acceptable #Fertilizer: An Analysis of Consumer Acceptance in #MsunduziSouthAfrica
2019, Benjamin Wilde, et al.
Abstract
"#Sustainable #SmallholderFarming is contingent on fertilizer access. Soils across Africa are typically nutrient deficient, a condition exacerbated by long-term #NutrientMining. #NitrifiedUrineFertilizer is a nutrient-rich and hygienically safe solution derived from human urine. It has the potential to provide a sustainable source of soil nutrients to low and middle-income countries struggling with food insecurity challenges. This study presents findings of a survey that assessed public acceptance within Msunduzi, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa towards the use of nitrified urine fertilizer. Results indicate that in general attitudes were much more positive towards the use of nitrified urine fertilizer than raw urine as a soil amendment. Residents living within rural zones of the municipality (78.5%), as opposed to urban (65.7%) and peri-urban (65.2%), and younger individuals within the sampled population were found to be the most receptive to the use of nitrified urine fertilizer. Our findings also underscore the complex set of factors that shape attitudes towards a topic such as the use of human waste as a fertilizer, which are crucial in shaping the legitimacy of an emerging #technology such as urine nitrification."
Full paper:
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/9/2456
#SolarPunkSunday #ZeroWaste #NaturalFertilizer #HumanWaste #Sustainability #Science
Producing #EnvironmentallyFriendly #Fertilizer from Human #Urine
Apr 30, 2020
"Dr. Adey Desta, an Ethiopian Scientist has successfully produced an environmental friendly fertilizer from human urine. Unlike the synthetic fertilizers in the market, Dr. Adey's research has produced a cheap, water insoluble fertilizer that guards against leaching which in turn contaminates Rivers, Lakes, underneath water table etc. during rainy seasons."
Learn more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=w5cIRC7n0D0
#SolarPunkSunday #ZeroWaste #NaturalFertilizer #HumanWaste #Sustainability #Science
Jada made these gorgeous child sized #moccasins from a #roadkill #deer.
#ThompsonNation #Indigenous #ZeroWaste #SalvagedRoadkill #IndigenousCrafts #LeatherProcessing #AnimalHideProcessing #handcrafted #handmade #handstitched #NativeArt
I make homemade banana peel liquid fertilizer, weed teas with comfrey & weed cuttings & fish/seaweed fertilizers - all natural. I don't buy fertilizer - no need to spend money on any, when I can make my own. I use large old food grade buckets to make my various #NaturalFertilizers.
https://theherbprof.com/how-to-make-homemade-banana-peel-fertilizer/
Some of our homemade #compost #soil. It's like gold to us gardeners 💚👩🌾
Prepping some large pots with it, to get ready for transplanting of my tomato plants in 2-3 weeks. I put a fish head & banana peel at bottom of each large pot.
#SoilHealth #Gardening #FoodSecurity #NaturalFertilizer #ZeroWaste #FrugalGardening
Waste Not: How to Safely Use #Urine in Your Home #Garden.
"Using Urine to Feed Plants
Not many people talk about it, but lots of home gardeners do use their pee in their gardens. This practice is centuries old. Some gardeners will use it around fruit trees, or in their flower gardens. Some add it to their compost piles, or to strategically placed straw bales that later get added to compost piles or used to mulch vegetable beds.
Worried about the smell? Read below about dilution. Any smell will dissipate within minutes of application."
#Urea #Fertilizer #Gardening #SolarPunkSunday #RegenerativeAgriculture #ZeroWaste
5 Zero-Waste Myths Busted: An Honest Look at What Actually Matters
Feeling overwhelmed by zero-waste? We bust the 5 biggest myths holding you back. An honest, practical guide to making real progress, not achieving perfection.
Remote controls are a form of accidental obsolescence. Using dumbphones or smartphones to prevent the waste of devices missing remotes.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/36021551 [https://slrpnk.net/post/36021551] > As a zero waste OCD nutter, I end up with a lot of TV and radio devices pulled from dumpsters and 2nd-hand markets. The remote controls (RCs) are almost always missing. For many devices, the whole fucking device becomes totally unusable without the RC. Which is probably why many devices end up in the trash – because the remote was lost or chewed up by a dog. > > Apparently humans have not evolved to be smart enough to create an open standard mandating that all appliances with remote controls have a published manual containing the IR signal specs for every function to then enable the signals to be reproduced. > > ## Palm pilots (somewhat viable) > In the 1990s, Palm pilots had integrated infrared sensors w/LED. There was a very useful third-party app enabling physical remote controls to be copied. You could design your own button layout and have a tab for every RC. Of course the problem is that you needed the original RC as a source to copy. > > ## Smartphones (nope) > Smartphones are worse than Palm pilots. IR sensors are RARE. There are IR dongles that can be attached to a smartphone (either USB or headphone jack). It’s a bit redicious if you have to have a dongle hanging off the edge of your phone wherever you go. The phone would not likely slide into an arm strap w/the dongle. So you wouldn’t carry it around, which means you have to keep track of it. It’s something else that can get lost (manufacturers and sellers love that feature). > > ## Universal RCs (nope) > Like OEM remotes, these have a fixed set of buttons. But of course they have to try to guess what buttons will be needed. They include a database of hundreds of signal sets, but you are likely fucked if the device is an obscure or rebranded no name generic. I have radios that have the branding of the grocery store that sold them, FFS. No chance that would be in these preset DBs. I also have 4 different models of the same radio brand, and the RCs are incompatible w/each other same brand device (WTF). > > ## The collective solution > Lobby for policy to force an open standard and then mandate the use of it. > > ## The quazi individual solution (using smartphones) > 1. Derive a list of smartphones with built-in IR sensors and LEDs. > 1. Port a FOSS distro of some kind to all those phones. > 1. Code 2 FOSS apps, one for linux distros and one for f-droid for AOS forks. Or make one app that’s ported to both. > > The app should be able to record existing OEM RCs. And in the absence of the OEM RC, it should be able to sync to an open data crowd-sourced DB (which means it should also be able to export datasets to the project). > > ## The quazi individual solution (using dumbphones) > A lot of Sony Ericsson feature phones have IR sensors and an LED for the purpose of syncing the contacts, SMSs, etc. The FOSS Gammu app exploits this. If an app could be pushed to those phones it would basically repurpose otherwise wasted dumbphones to help salvage otherwise wasted RC-less appliances. >
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