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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[jdubinc]

I'm all about this... but seeing that pee and imagining the smell makes me almost throw up.

[OrganicGarden123]

@jdubinc Yes, that's a common question/concern. Fortunately, there is almost no smell from the urine, or at least not much different from how it smells when you pee at the toilet. The compost pile itself has no urine smell at all. The pee is composted nicely.

[thepeacesignfactory]

The video would be better if you just pee on the hay bail. You could do it without exposing yourself.

[OrganicGarden123]

@thepeacesignfactory Hi. These straw bales were on my front lawn, so actually I couldn't pee directly onto them without risking being seen by neighbors, police, etc. Also, by peeing in a jug I don't have to pee in the rain, snow, night, nor in my pajamas, barefoot, etc. Peace

[BooGooNFlowoo4Evoo]

Now the big question in that guy's house is...is it urine, or is it apple juice? You'll never know unless you open the jug...

[OrganicGarden123]

@BooGooNFlowoo4Evoo Well, if you see a jug like this in my bathroom or being poured on my compost, my advice would be to assume it is NOT apple juice!

[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?

[tavascarow]

@ravengurlxx urine is sterile, doesn't carry any pathogens whatsoever.

Sh*t on the other hand does & requires extensive composting before you can use it.

[BooGooNFlowoo4Evoo]

@OrganicGarden123 :) A joke! Did they never play Is It Apple Juice? at your school? When you pee in a freshly emptied juice jug with a little pinger inside, the apple scent masks the urine, especially if it's kept cold. Assorted shenanigans may ensue, but, you're of course going to hell if you let anyone drink the urine.

[armanflint]

Usually, I can produce a 24ounce wizz when I am driving and drinking a lot of coffee. I can't imagine the the nitrogen content of a good coffee wizz after 10AM. Coffee wizz has to be like anhydrous ammonia.

[ytmalveo]

Good Idea