New research shows human urine can be efficiently transformed into nutrient-rich fertilizer using low-energy technology. The ...

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 ...

Scientists show how human urine can be transformed into nutrient-rich fertilizer, cutting energy use in wastewater treatment.

Researchers at McGill University have improved the efficiency of a method for converting human urine into clean energy. The method employs microbial fuel cells (MFCs), which use bacteria to turn ...

Rich Earth Institute sends a pump truck out to donors’ homes to collect urine to treat and turn into fertilizer. When Peter Stickney walks along his cow paddocks in the morning, he notes the scattered ...

Modern sanitation systems have long treated human urine as waste, flushing away valuable nitrogen and phosphorus that are ...