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Grow your own pee-plant
Just when I thought I'd heard it all, from Treehugger.com a DIY (do-it-yourself) kit to turn urine into fertilizer:
What role do our bodies play in larger ecosystems? That's the question asked by drinkpeedrinkpeedrinkpee, a project and installation that opens at Eyebeam in New York City today. The installation features a large scale physical diagram that shows the role our bodies play in the water cycle, and DIY kits for using your pee as plant fertilizer will be available.
Only for the true DIY'er.
urine already IS fertilizer
Urine is a well balanced fertilizer all by itself, although it should be mixed with about ten parts water to avoid burning plant roots.
Unless you have a urinary tract or bladder infection, urine is nealy sterile. If you do have an infection, there is still no path for the bacteria to return to your urinary system, even if you grow food plants.
There are no wastes in nature.
pee for fertilizer
While traveling in Ecuador last summer we visited a Heifer Int'l project and saw plastic bottles of human urine being stored for use as fertilizer at an organic farm. Our guide, a native, said that in the rainforest they often drink their own pee as a health enhancer. I was surprised, as I had always thought it was damaging to plants to put human pee on them, and thought it would be counterproductive to drink one's own urine. Guess I was following some wrong assumptions!