Nov132009
Want good compost? Pee on it
Filed under Sustainability by david brooks at 12:42 pm
BBC has a terrific story (read it here) about gardeners at a National Trust property in Britain (roughly equivalent to a National Historic Site here) getting their male employees to urinate on hay bales, which are used to speed up the composting process. The story has lots of great tidbits, including:
- They don’t ask female employees, partly for logistical reasons (urination posture is the one area where nobody can deny the superiority of the male physique) and partly because female urine is more acidic.
- They don’t do it when people are visiting - Britain isn’t ready to see “pee bales” in action, I guess.
- They estimate large water savings by reduction of “loo” flushes
This idea is old hat to organic gardeners, it seems. A quick Google-ing of “urine compost” finds a zillion discussions - including this one, which has the delightful sentence “heck, I pee all over the place”.
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