Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/08/restaurant_recycles_wee/
Restaurant takes the piss, recycles it as fertiliser
Oz diner closes canola loop with world-first loos
Posted in Science, 8th March 2012 00:01 GMT
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A Melbourne restaurant is collecting its patrons' urine and turning it into fertiliser.
Smart Planet reports [1] that tulip farmer and green installation guru Joost Bakker's latest Greenhouse pop up restaurant has purpose-built loos which take the piss for later re-use.
The restaurant relies on canola oil and the wee is used to create canola-friendly fertiliser, closing the loop nicely. Bakker says wee makes great fertiliser - just 25 deposits can help a hectare of canola to grow.
Bakker's visit to Australia has also seen him build a house of straw, which escaped with all the hairs on it's chinny chin chin when set alight. The house used bales of the stuff as insulation for a steel frame, which then survived a simulated bushfire.
Bakker has blogged about that experiment here [2] .
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