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A total of 1,000 litres of urine will be collected from runners making use of PEEQUAL women's urinals at the London Marathon, recycled, and turned into fertiliser for wheat.
From smarter, waste-reducing logistics, turning runners’ urine into fertiliser and carbon removal investments, organisers are ...
If scaled, urine from last year’s London Marathon could have fertilised enough wheat for 3,000 loaves of bread.
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 ...
According to Hannah Vandenbergh, founder of NPK Recovery, the urine from last year’s 53,700 London Marathon finishers could - ...
Urine from thousands of women running the 2025 London Marathon will be saved from sewage and turned into fertiliser for wheat ...
Urine from thousands of women running in the TCS London Marathon will be saved from sewage and turned into crop-growing ...
A total of 1,000 litres of urine will be collected from runners making use of PEEQUAL women's urinals at the London Marathon ...
London Marathon chiefs have teamed up with two pioneering start-ups to recycle runners’ urine and turn it into fertiliser.
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