Urine from thousands of London Marathon participants is to be reused to make fertiliser for crops. An estimated 1,000 litres ...

Thousands of women running in the TCS London Marathon will contribute to a greener future, as their urine is diverted from ...

This will be the third year running that PEEQUAL’s women’s urinals have reduced toilet queues at the marathon.

London Marathon chiefs have teamed up with two pioneering start-ups to recycle runners’ urine and turn it into fertiliser.

Ten participants in the 2025 Suzhou Marathon have been banned from all road races sanctioned by the Chinese Athletics ...

This year the duo are working with fellow Bristol-based start-up NPK Recovery to recycle the urine collected. Urine from nine Peequal urinals, positioned at the marathon’s yellow start line, will be ...

According to Hannah Vandenbergh, founder of NPK Recovery, the urine from last year’s 53,700 London Marathon finishers could - if recycled - fertilise enough wheat to bake 3,142 loaves of bread. Both ...

The urine of thousands of women taking part in the London Marathon this Sunday will be recycled and turned into fertiliser ...

Two Bristol-based start-ups have joined forces to turn urine from London Marathon runners into fertiliser. Urine from thousands of women running the marathon on Sunday (27 April) will be saved from ...

But 2025 sees a pioneering addition: the urine collected from nine PEEQUAL urinals at the marathon’s start line will be processed by Bristol-based startup NPK Recovery to be converted to fertiliser ...