2021 CEE Love Pee on the Peonies
Harrison Timothy Suchyta, Undergraduate and Research Assistant at Civil and Environmental Engineering, checks the level of his watering can filled with Urine Derived Fertilizer (UDF) at the University of Michigan Nichols Arboretum at 1610 Washington Heights in Ann Arbor, MI on Wednesday April 28, 2021.
UDF is fertilizer produced from diverted and sanitized human urine that can be used on plants and for agriculture. Well-researched methods such as pasteurization and activated carbon filtration are used to remove pathogens and pharmaceuticals present in urine.
Diverting human urine away from wastewater helps to save energy and drinking water, eliminate nutrient pollution in rivers and lakes, and creates a sustainable replacement for synthetic fertilizers.
Photo: Robert Coelius/University of Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing
2021 CEE Love Pee on the Peonies
Harrison Timothy Suchyta, Undergraduate and Research Assistant at Civil and Environmental Engineering, checks the level of his watering can filled with Urine Derived Fertilizer (UDF) at the University of Michigan Nichols Arboretum at 1610 Washington Heights in Ann Arbor, MI on Wednesday April 28, 2021.
UDF is fertilizer produced from diverted and sanitized human urine that can be used on plants and for agriculture. Well-researched methods such as pasteurization and activated carbon filtration are used to remove pathogens and pharmaceuticals present in urine.
Diverting human urine away from wastewater helps to save energy and drinking water, eliminate nutrient pollution in rivers and lakes, and creates a sustainable replacement for synthetic fertilizers.
Photo: Robert Coelius/University of Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing