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We found a way to turn urine into solid fertiliser - it could make farming more sustainable

Prithvi Simha, Björn Vinnerås, and Jenna Senecal, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, The Conversation
clock 17 November 2020 •
We found a way to turn urine into solid fertiliser - it could make farming more sustainable

Could we be on the cusp of a circular pee-conomy?

It's likely that most of the food you'll eat today was not farmed sustainably. The global system of food production is the largest human influence on the planet's natural cycles of nitrogen and phosphorus....

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