Urine Composting: Compost your Pee

Human urine is a great, natural, free source of Nitrogen for your soil or compost.
Flushing your urine after each pee, would waste thousands of gallons of water per year at home. Then, your valuable urine is not only lost, but it goes to a chemical waste center where they must use chemicals on all that water you flushed, since within the sewage pipes it has all gotten mixed with stool.
To minimize the water shortages seen in so many communities, an easy way to save water is by NOT flushing away your urine. Using it for your compost or garden is an extra benefit. (If you just let it sit in the toilet bowel until you have a bowel movement, then the urine can start to smell up your bathroom, and your garden or compost would be missing out on a great source of liquid nitrogen.)

Try it.... it is much easier, cleaner, and normal than you might think.

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[CCourson05]

Drink more water. That urine is awfully yellow.

[OrganicGarden123]

@CCourson05 Pee in a 1-gallon jug with cloudy/opaque walls, and you will see that your urine looks darker. Cheers!

[dealcrusher]

There is a reason why God has the urine flow away from the body. I wouldn't want any percentage of toxins going into my garden. It only takes a yahoo to figure out a way to use their urine. In some cultures it is customary to drink the urine. It is very benificial. I suggest everyone in favor of piss gardening have a glass on me. Just tell us piss-less farmers where to send it.

[OrganicGarden123]

@dealcrusher You do know that farmers routinely use cow manure as a fertilizer, right? You do understand that we are all made of chemicals that have been recycled countless times on this planet, right? Chemicals that right now make up you and me are of course the same chemicals that have previously been part of the foods we eat, the air we breath (after exhaled by others), the soil that our food grew in, the bugs and animals and plants that died and decomposed in that soil, etc.

[dealcrusher]

I would think you would end up with a lot of problems using urine in the garden. You have bacteria and toxins being flushed out of your bladder and kidneys. You are then going to put the toxity into soil for your plants. "Why thanks," says your neighbor. "For all the veggies, but what is that odor I smell?"

[OrganicGarden123]

@dealcrusher 1) normal urine is sterile (no bugs), so unless you have a urinary tract infection there are no bacteria. 2) "toxins" to us is excess nitrogen, which plants need. Similar to our exhaled carbon monoxide being good for plants and their oxygen being good for us. 3) No significant smell, which is great since that was my main concern before doing this. 4) Happy gardening!

[OrganicGarden123]

@vidaripollen Yes, I agree that it is incredibly wasteful to use lots drinkable, fresh, clean water to wash pee down the toilet. It is actually a ridiculous system.

[CimaraNyx]

Couldn't you just pee on the hay bales?

[larry1369]

I urinate frequently in my garden. It is a great usable source of nitrogen for the plants and seems to speed up compost formation. Like anything too much of a good thing is not good so spread the love around as you may create excess acid in the soil if you only used one spot to enrich the soil. I live in So Cal where we import 65% of our water so I would never waste up to three gallons of precious water just to pee, the brown stuff is a different matter and since I do not have composting toilet!

[qin02]

@jdubinc The smell that you normally get from peeing on a wall, is from the ammonia that gets developed. This isn't a problem as the bateria from a compost pile trives on ammonia and "eats" it before it gets too fruitful

[qin02]

@dealcrusher dude, your forefathers have been using human manure and urine for a long time. There isn't any problems. No the drugs/medicine you take has a limit affect as a large percentage are expelled by the skin and breath. Only a small percentage makes it in your urine.

[am9110024]

bet it smells like my local bum x100