Many of us want a lush, green, thriving lawn, but along with the right choice of grass and good mowing habits, it's important to decide which fertilizer is best to use. There's one option that's ...

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 ...

Should we be flushing perfectly good fertilizer down the toilet? Some eco-minded folks are proposing a circular water economy that puts urine to work. Urine is packed with nitrogen and phosphorus, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Waste products like coffee grounds and eggshells are widely used to improve soil health, but there are some more ...

Researchers say human urine – or peecycling – could be a liquid gold alternative to chemical fertilizers. Fabien Esculier, a researcher at the OCAPI research program in France, told Euro News that ...

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 ...

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 ...

A French start-up has unveiled a urine-based fertilizer to limit the use of chemical ones and make use of valuable nutrients lost when we flush. Toopi Organics claims the solution has many ...

Removing urine from wastewater and using it as fertilizer has the potential to decrease nutrient loading in water bodies and boost sustainability by making use of a common waste material. In excess, ...