Show threadPollinatorsApr 5, 2025
@beandreams @jonobie @potterybyosa @LJ Thank you beandreams of Victoria, Canada for sharing #peecycling.
Sarah dreams of beansApr 5, 2025

@jonobie @Pollinators @potterybyosa @LJ This recent episode of Propaganda By The Seed has a really chill method of composting with urine, which is less of a commitment than composting with poop. I doubt there is a hashtag for that one but I have heard it called urine recycling or #peecycling

https://edgewood-nursery.com/podcast/2025/2/5/growing-calorie-crops-at-home-with-peter-kellman-and-rebekah-yonan

Growing Calorie Crops at Home with Peter Kellman and Rebekah Yonan β€” Edgewood Nursery

This Episode on: Apple Podcast , Spotify , Libsyn In this episode I talk with Peter Kellman and Rebekah Yonan about growing your own calorie crops and the systems they use to grow and process their food using a minimum of external inputs. We cover the ins and outs of planting, harvesting, thres

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BunNICKulaπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦Mar 1, 2025

Cool article. We waste so much waste.

Go #Vermont THE Green State. #Peecycling

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250227-the-vermont-farmers-using-urine-to-grow-their-crops

Why Vermont farmers are using urine on their crops

Urine was used as fertiliser in ancient Rome and China. Now farmers in Vermont are bringing this practice back to boost harvests and grow crops in a more sustainable way.

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Show threadMerilee D. Karr, MD, MFAMay 28, 2024
@pixelpusher220 @ai6yr
Ideal solution would be composting dry toilets, for example Kailash Ecovillage in Portland.
Right now they could save flush water by collecting pee for gardens. Later scale up to the level of the Rich Earth Institute, peecycling in Vermont.
I wonder if Mexico City residents have adopted the California motto β€œIf it’s yellow, let it mellow. If it’s brown, flush it down.” Seems like a cultural thing.
#sanitation #ecosanitation #composttoilet #peecycling
Show threadMerilee D. Karr, MD, MFAMar 10, 2024

@Helengraham How do you separate pee & poo -- hop from bucket to bucket? Nope. There's something called a "urine-diverting toilet insert." It has a funnel in front that catches the urine, and channels it to a separate container, while the poop falls straight down into the main container.

Here's a DIY method: http://www.thefloatingempire.com/2018/02/diy-urine-diverter-for-bucket-composter.html

You can find many urine diverters for bucket toilets, just google "urine diverter."

#sanitation
#peecycling
#urinediversion
#humanure

DIY Urine Diverter for Composting Toilet

The Floating Empire is a tiny house shanty boat made of recycled and repurposed materials. The blog details it's construction and life aboard.

Programme OCAPIDec 7, 2023

Congratulations to our American colleagues who managed to move forward with testing urine diversion rather than building new #sewers in #Falmouth !

https://www.capenews.net/falmouth/news/state-recommends-fast-tracking-urine-diverting-toilets-for-provisional-use/article_dc492298-c8a7-51f7-bec1-fbf37146d120.html

This was made possible by many dedicated individuals, as well as the Rich Earth Institute and the MASSTC.

https://richearthinstitute.org
https://www.masstc.org/project/critical-questions/falmouth-ecotoilet-project

#urine #urineDiversion #toilets #ecology #nitrogen #phosphorus #circularity #pee #peeCycling

State Recommends Fast-Tracking Urine-Diverting Toilets For Provisional Use

The state Department of Environmental Protection has recommended that rather than doing a urine diversion pilot program, the Town of Falmouth should skip the pilot and instead apply for provisional

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Show threadNancy LoveNov 24, 2022
@SuzieReichman I am an #environmentalengineer who studies & teaches #drinkingwater and #wastewater design; links between water quality, infrastructure, & public health; & methods of effective community partnerships centered on achieving equity. I look at how microbial functions in underinvested water systems support growth of #pathogens; & nutrient recovery via #peecycling to create more sustainable circular nutrient economy and slow release fertilizer forms.
Nancy LoveNov 20, 2022
I created a class called Water and Sanitation: Design and Practice with inspiration from Ethiopian faculty colleagues because so much of what is needed in water treatment for majority of the world is not in our conventional textbooks, across Global South and North. Almost to the end of the term. For tomorrow's topic, we start Ecosanitation and will focus on #peecycling and circular economy - for those new to this: it is about recovering N and P elements from wastes in concentrated forms by separating at the point of excretion, and using technology to process to safe NPK fertilizers. Last topic after this will be science communication & environmental justice, a topic in great demand by students. Happy to connect with anyone else creating similar content in their courses.
Programme OCAPIJun 21, 2022

Even the New-York Times is talking about #urine!

Meet the peecyclers!
A shortage of fertilizers, worsened by the war in Ukraine, has growers desperate. It just so happens that human urine has #nutrients that crop need.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/17/climate/peecycling-farming-urine-fertilizer.html

#fertilizer #ClimateChange #peecycling #agriculture

Meet the Peecyclers. Their Idea to Help Farmers Is No. 1.

A shortage of chemical fertilizer, worsened by the war in Ukraine, has growers desperate. It just so happens that human urine has the very nutrients that crops need.