Thread: pee in the pile
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Old 28-09-2003, 05:22 AM
Mogie
 
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Default pee in the pile

This info came from the master gardener's. Would think they know what they
were talking about. Of course you don't line up strangers and have them pee
in your compost pile. Of course you don't pee in the compost if you have
AIDS either. Come on.

JNJ wrote in message
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Heard at my composting class that human urine is good for the compost

pile.

Maybe if it were pure, but nowadays....

There are a variety of chemicals in a person's urine that would probably

not
do well in a compost pile, especially if that person were on medications
(both prescribed and, ahem, "social" medications or libations). Things

such
as fluoride (for example) will readily pass into urine, and unless you
grow/raise your own foods there's no telling what chemicals are in the

foods
you eat and subsequently in you.

That being said, urine has been used for centuries as a form of fertilizer
(as has untreated excreta, both human and otherwise) -- in many countries

it
still is used as such. AFAIK, this is for it's nitrogen content. It's

also
used in medicinal and industrial applications.

Either way, I don't think I'd use it on my compost pile -- in this case,

it
would be just as easy to pick up a bag of nitrogen to sprinkle over the
pile.

James






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