"tenacity" wrote in message
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Why would urine be a better compost activator than anything else? Urine
is just uric acid, water, and ammonia, in a healthy person. None of
those things will do anything dramatic to start compost that water
wouldn't do on its own.


Apart from uric acid which is a useful form of nitrogen urine also contains
urea which is an even better source of nitrogen. In a warm aqueous solution
they are excellent compost activators.
Urine does not contain ammonia in a free form.
Most compost activators sold commercially contain similar things.