Namibia: The startup recycling urine to make fertiliser – Enviroment

When staff answer the call of nature at the European Space Agency’s headquarters in Paris, their urine is not simply flushed away – it is turned into something more useful.

While urine-diverting toilets are often associated with smelly festival toilets, there is nothing bohemian about recycling nutrients from human pee, says VunaNexus chief executive David de Chambrier.

The process isn’t so different from recovering minerals in used electronics.

“Urine is a very concentrated resource….