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it's monday june 20th 20th. I'm Jackson Bird today. Would you use your own pee in your garden or donate it to a local farm? Some folks around the world see that as the future of fertilization. Plus, some scientists want to rename summer danger season.

And astronomers have discovered a new multi-planet system not too far away from us with two

Earth-sized rocky planets.

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

Reduce, reuse, and pee cycle?

That's the motto of more and more people around the world who are using human urine

as a fertilizer, particularly as chemical fertilizer becomes harder and harder to come by

due to the supply chain shortage and

the war in Ukraine. As farmers and gardeners will know, fertilizers contain three fundamental

nutrients, nitrogen to help increase yield, phosphorus to aid in maturation, and potassium

to keep the plants strong and resilient.

Urine has all three in abundance. Solid waste from humans does too, but not as much as urine,

and it can contain significantly more pathogens. The Rich Earth Institute, which leads a urine

collection, treatment and awareness program in Vermont,

notes that adults produce between 100 to 150 gallons of urine each year.

That urine has 9 pounds of nitrogen and 0.8 pounds of phosphorus.

If all of it were to be used to fertilize grain, you'd have enough wheat to make a loaf of bread every single day of the year.

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