Isn’t peeing in the shower better for the environment?
Sure. You save the water you would otherwise use to flush the toilet. However, we can’t hold it all day long until we go to take shower, right?
Alternatives are not flushing the toilet every time but there is sanitary issues and it could be difficult if there are other occupants sharing the same facilities. More eco friendly toilets have two buttons - one for liquid waste (low flow) and one for solid waste (high flow). They are in the market but since they cost a little more they have limited market share today.
As for urine as fertilizer. It is. However, it has to be diluted before the application or the plant or grass may die. People who have front yard must have experience about yellow or brown spots on the lawn due to the “contribution” from neighbors’ dogs.
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If you mean instead of the toilet, and then flushing the toilet, then yes, it would obviously conserve water.
The best thing for the enviroment though? It would actually be to urinate outside, especially in your garden. You wouldn’t believe all the truely valuable things in ones urine.
People often forget just how nature works. They all concintrate on the fact that animal manure is good for the garden, and to make pastures grow. Urine is equally as important.
So actually the most enviromentally friendly thing to do would be to urinate in ones vegtable garden, or orchard, and skip putting synthetic, oil based fertilizers on the garden.
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for a much better environment than peeing in the shower…
if u got a garden outside your house…
pee at the plants better… never waste good fertilizer..
see…
http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2007/10/…
http://blogs.earthsky.org/jeremyshere/20…
white polar bear..
thanks for highlighting the “diluted urine”
but i still think it’s not a hard job to diluted urine before we make them useful.. right?
infect it’s better to dilute it in a container in in-house toilet.
than just pee outside the house..(since we still need to flush the toilet after we pee..)
since “human urine” (not dog urine) are good fertilizer i don’t see why can’t we make good use of it.
we can have our beautiful garden while we save money buying fertilizer.
who know.., maybe u can even grow your very own cabbage for food too..! it’s bettter than eating cabbage grown with others human urine fertilizer…!