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Last month california became the second state in the nation to allow especially treated wastewater to be used for drinking and other household needs
Which brings to mind a recycling effort underway
And for a mont that we admit devise easy description
Faith sailly on job number one
The here's lisa sneckenburger performing for us
And for the plants in her braattle burough vermont garden
The tomato seem happy so to the bees and this maybe the reason
Why here is ssa enraching the garden with her own families you're in
When we tell people about it y're mostly confused
They're just why why welcome to the world of peace
Cccwhere where urine is not considered waste
But liquid old if you meet someone knew
And they say what do you do how do you answer
Yeah say say wework at an organization
That's developing ways to turn human eurer into ferertizer er
That organization is called the rich earth institute and abno no haze is it's coo founder along with kim neace
People are usually a little taken back
But then i just kind of i given the real quick there's nutriance in your urand
And we are figuring out how to capture those and use them in agriculture
How many p jokes do you deal with on a daily bit k jokes are consistent
But to naasand noie hayes the concept of saving and reusing human urine is a serious endeavor
So what is in urine
That plants need nitrogen
Fofosperous potassium and other trace minerals that come through our body
As we eat our food
And then use the toilet
How much urine are you collecting at this point beout twelve thousand gallons a year researchers around the us and the world are studying your in cycling
In sweden
In switzerland
In france and in south africa and other countries
And the rich earth institute regularly offers educational webon arours
What do you think what surprised people the most that it is clean
That it doesn't look gross
And it doesn't smell
And the privacy thing to that was a surprise to me
It totally quiite
So that there's no flush
There's no flush
That's because lisa schckenburger uses a very special toilet with two compartments
Toilet
Paper and solid waste
Going the back
And then you're in
Goes in the front
So there's two compartments
Both going to separate compartments
Downstairs in these collection tanks
Ricearth comes with the big truck in a big hose
And they empty youare intack twice a year
How much you're in have you saved it's a lot
How if you don't happen and to have a special toilet
The rich earth institute offers this low tech portable urinal
Now would only a man use this
No um men can use it
But women can also squad over this
Rich earth also makes it easy for donors to deliver their liquid waste to a downtown depot
As you can see the process requires no pouring
I think it's pretty great
Kevin oyan is a community tool librarian
Who's been bringing his urin here for three years for me
It takes me about a month to to fill up a five gwjjug some kind of come to the
The deep about once a month to donate
Although i want to reach towards a goal of donating a hundred gws a year
Those who do receive a lovely certificate from rich earth
So the urn comes in
Goes through this system
Yarin is typically free of harmful bacteria
But if it gets near solid waste
That could lead to disease so abe
Nowee hayes says
That all of the urn and ricich art collelects is pasterized to federal standards
It's clean yeah
It's heated up pathogers die it cools back down
And then it leaves the machine
And then arthur davis transfers the cleanurine from the huge storage tanks to his trucks containers around a thousand gallons at a time
It's actually about four tones on his big yellow truck with the custom license plate davis overseas the entire collection and distribution process
We're dealing with chemistry
We're dealing with biology or also dealing with psychology of people
Because people have all kinds of thoughts about it ready for ya
Today
He's delivering to a true believer
No
A hoskun's owner of the bunker farm
Hoskins says
His grazing fields are thirsty for p
If you are taking nutrients out of the ground
You need to be repunisshing those nutrients in some form or another
A lot of p
Cycling is still in the research in development phase aph of four point six
Six
But kimneace and abe noihays imagine a bright yellow future
You're kind of asking for a cultural change
When not asking people to do something that's difficult
You just use the toilet that thing you just did that was great
Know that
You made something useful
And you made something that's going to do good in the world
You like
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Really i did
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