Thursday Fun Fact: Instead of flushing their pee down the drain, A small group of environmentalists in Vermont are collecting it with special toilets that separate no. 1 and no. 2. Why? The logic driving this avant-garde project of the Rich Earth Institute, based in Brattleboro, Vt., is that its foolish and wasteful to part with the precious nitrogen and phosphorus that moves from the food we eat right through us — especially when farmers have to buy fertilizer at great expense to put those very same nutrients back into the soil.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 20:43:36 +0000
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