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 ...

In a brightly-lit laboratory in the south of France, nestled between fields of wheat and sunflowers, bottles of human urine are gently jiggling around in an incubator. In a warehouse next door, ...

Shipping fertilizer to colonies on Mars could be quite a hassle – it would certainly be better if the colonists were able to grow crops using whatever's on hand. The continuation of an existing study ...

The production of mineral based fertilizers requires a significant amount of energy and relies in part on non-renewable resources such as phosphate rock. Furthermore, the price of mineral fertilizer ...

Urine doesn’t have to end up in traditional wastewater treatment plants. It can be recycled to provide natural fertilizer for plants. Next time you water your plants, think about these seemingly ...

Ambio, Vol. 44, Supplement 2. Special Issue: Future agriculture with minimized phosphorus losses to waters (2015), pp. S217-S227 (11 pages) Urine contains about 50 % of the phosphorus (P) and about 90 ...