Danish festival-goers donate urine to help make beer

Rather than collect and treat the copious amount of pee produced by beer-swigging live music lovers, the organizers of last week's Roskilde Festival and the Danish Agriculture & Food Council opted to put all that liquid gold to good use. A beercycling project dubbed "From piss to pilsner" invited attendees to leave deposits for local farmers to use as fertilizer for barley crops grown to make beer.Continue ReadingCategory: Lifestyle, Consumer Tech, TechnologyTags: Beer, Urinals, Music festival, Toilet

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Danish festival-goers donate urine to help make beer

Males could just let the fluids flow into urinals positioned strategically throughout the festival grounds, but females wanting to contribute to the project had to use a P-Mate disposable urine director

Rather than collect and treat the copious amount of pee produced by beer-swigging live music lovers, the organizers of last week's Roskilde Festival and the Danish Agriculture & Food Council opted to put all that liquid gold to good use. A beercycling project dubbed "From piss to pilsner" invited attendees to leave deposits for local farmers to use as fertilizer for barley crops grown to make beer.

Category: Lifestyle, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Beer, Urinals, Music festival, Toilet