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Recycling human urine to enhance agricultural sustainability

Human urine: An eco-friendly crop fertilizer

A new study shows that soil bacteria are just as strong against human urine as they are against synthetic fertilizers. This suggests that using urine as fertilizer for crops could be a good idea.

The scientists found that even when large amounts of stored urine were used, it had little effect on the soil bacteria and caused only small changes in soil pH and salinity.

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