Peeing On Your Garden

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Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

It's a bit out there, but human urine is actually a fantastic fertilizer. Here's how you can use it to improve your plants.

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0:00.0	Should you urinate on your garden?
0:17.8	It's an interesting question, kind of a weird question.
0:20.6	Well, the answer might be yes, actually.
0:23.4	Let's think about this for a second.
0:25.2	There was a study done by the Stockholm Environment Institute that says a person can produce as
0:31.7	much urine per year to fertilize 300 to 400 square meters, which is roughly 3,200 to
0:38.4	4,300 square feet of crops.
0:41.4	So used at a household level, the amount of urine that a family produces is more than
0:46.4	enough to help sustain a home garden.
0:48.9	If adopted at scale, capitalizing on human urine could tackle both sanitation and food security
0:54.7	challenges around the world.
0:56.4	Sounds wild, right?
0:57.4	Sounds like how could that be true?
0:58.8	Well, let's think about it.
0:59.8	Well, we live in modern society, right?
1:01.7	We are used to just flushing away our waste products and then someone else deals with them
1:06.1	and then they go somewhere that we often don't think about.
1:09.4	So let's think about what's actually in urine.
1:13.8	It is a liquid waste product.
1:15.3	Our kidneys are cleaning and filtering our blood.
1:18.0	It's 95% water and the rest of it is a mix of salts that includes sodium, potassium, chloride,
1:24.2	urea, and uric acid.
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