{"id":204243,"date":"2025-01-22T01:27:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T07:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/innovative-process-converts-urine-into-slow-release-crystal-fertilizer"},"modified":"2025-01-22T01:27:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T07:27:45","slug":"innovative-process-converts-urine-into-slow-release-crystal-fertilizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/innovative-process-converts-urine-into-slow-release-crystal-fertilizer","title":{"rendered":"Innovative process converts urine into slow-release crystal fertilizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/innovative-process-converts-urine-into-slow-release-crystal-fertilizer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of chemists and agriculture specialists has developed a way to transform urea in wastewater, into percarbamide, which can be used as a fertilizer. In their paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41929-024-01277-3\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i><i>Nature Catalysis<\/i>,<\/i> the group describes their process and how well the resulting product worked in growing edible crops.<\/p>\n<p>Urine is seen as a source of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fertilizer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fertilizer<\/a> because it is high in nitrogen and other rich compounds that are good for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/plant+growth\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">plant growth<\/a>. Many home gardeners know that urine can be used as a fertilizer both for flower and vegetable gardens\u2014the key is to mix it with a lot of water to prevent burning the plants.<\/p>\n<p>Prior efforts to use urine as a source of fertilizer on a larger scale, however, have proven to be unfeasible due to industrial inefficiencies; it is much easier to use standard methods that involve extracting nitrogen from the air. In this new effort, the researchers have developed a way to use human and animal <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/urine\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">urine<\/a> as a fertilizer for growing edible crops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of chemists and agriculture specialists has developed a way to transform urea in wastewater, into percarbamide, which can be used as a fertilizer. In their paper published in the journal Nature Catalysis, the group describes their process and how well the resulting product worked in growing edible crops. Urine is seen as a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}