Currently, we consider this as a waste, so what we’re trying to do is recycle it, closing the nutrients loop.” At VunaNexus, ...

In Lissa Schneckenburger's garden in Brattleboro, Vermont, the tomatoes seem happy; so do the bees. And the reason may be because of how she enriches the garden – with her own family's urine. "When we ...

Rebecca Lahr, a former post-doctorate student at the University of Michigan's Environmental and Civil Engineering department, counts organisms in a drop of urine in an effort to determine how to make ...

University of Michigan researchers will begin collecting urine in a couple of special toilets to turn it into fertilizer for use at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens. A team of U-M engineering ...

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 ...

As a professional gardener, I’m always seeking out new ways to feed my plants. I have steeped nettles in old buckets to brew a nitrogen-rich foliar feed, hoarded banana skins from the trash for a ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A pair of University of Michigan researchers are putting the "pee" in peony. Rather, they're putting pee ON peonies. Environmental engineering professors Nancy Love and Krista ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A pair of University of Michigan researchers are putting the “pee” in peony. Rather, they’re putting pee ON peonies. Environmental engineering professors Nancy Love and Krista ...

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, ...

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 ...

ANN ARBOR (AP)-- Special toilets are coming to University of Michigan as part of a large project researching the conversion of human urine into fertilizer. Officials say engineering researchers at the ...

BRATTLEBORO, Vermont — In Lissa Schneckenburger's garden in Brattleboro, Vermont, the tomatoes seem happy; so do the bees. And the reason may be because of how she enriches the garden – with her own ...