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Urinopsamling og -anvendelse i Hyldespjældet
On July the 27th 1999 the accumulating system for urine, which is
covering 10 apartments with around 30 recidents in the residential area of Hyldespjældet
in Albertslund, was taken into use. The project is part of the Danish Environmental
Protection Agency´s program called "Nutrients from city to country".
Each of the 10 apartments had a urineseparating toilet installed and 5 common
accumulating tanks, each of 3 cubicmetres, was buried. The object of the project was to
try out the technique, reveal reactions of the residents and obtain experiences and
measuring results to work out new legal guidelines within the area.
The project has shown that the residents are basically positive towards using natural
nutrients from humans in the production of victuals in preference to fertilizers and
wastewater sludge.
The urine separating toilet of the brand "Porsgrunn DS"
works reasonable but not totally satisfactory. Further development of the product is still
needed.
The storage of the urine in the tanks has not proven to give any obnoxious smells or
other problems of hygiene.
The capacity of 5 tanks of 3 m3 is accessed not to be quite suffiecient for
30 residents.
The "project of
urine collection and use in Hyldespjældet" has proven that it is both technically and socially possible and
acceptable to collect human urine in a relatively densely populated suburb area where the
collection potential, precisely because of the population density, is high.
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