Danish farmers recycle "Piss to Pilsner".

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Danish farmers recycle "Piss to Pilsner".

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... The Danish Agriculture & Food Council (DAFC) and the Roskilde Festival have teamed up for this initiative called ‘beercycling’ project, known as “From piss to pilsner”.

Urine was collected in specially designed storage tanks and transported to nearby fields where it will be used to fertilize malting barley. If everything turns out as planned, guests at the Roskilde Festival 2017 will be served beer fertilized with their own urine.

“Beercycling is about changing our approach to waste, from being a burden to being a valuable resource. Today, the huge amount of urine produced at the festival is having a negative impact on the environment and the sewage system and treatment plant in Roskilde. Beercycling will turn those many litres of urine into a resource,” says Leif Nielsen, head of communication for the DAFC.

Leif Nielsen sees great potential in beercycling and is confident that the project will be a success.

“I think most people can see the reason and the fun behind making a personal contribution to beer brewing instead of merely producing waste. Everyone is talking about sustainability and the beercycling project proves that sustainability is not just a buzzword used by the Danish food industry. Also, the fact that rock music is involved will help us get our message across,” he adds...
http://scandasia.com/beercycling-from-p ... -festival/

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Pregnant mare urine is used to make the contractive pill (The Pill).

At the Carlton and United Breweries in Australia, the employees piss into a large vat. From there it is bottled and canned and exported to the United States under the name Fosters.
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Here's a test question:

Q: Where does new water come from?



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A: There's no such thing as new water. Water is cycled repeatedly through the planetary hydrosphere. All water on Earth is recycled water.

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And for you teachers out there, don't worry: It's a formative and not a summative quiz. :D
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So Australia is the worldwide leader in water/piss recycling ????
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Username Taken wrote:Pregnant mare urine is used to make the contractive pill (The Pill).
Actually closer to was used (though it is possible there is an exception somewhere). Look for the bold in the (rather long)
info below:

One of the less savoury ways to make your living in 1930s Canada was as a collector of pregnant horses' urine. In those days, you could earn a crust by standing next to mare and waiting for it to empty its bladder. Of course, it took a certain kind of person to do this job, and not just because of the obvious social stigma attached to it - you also had to be nimble on your feet. As Gordon Stevenson noted in a Canadian medical journal in 1945, 'To do this job well requires a very active, agile individual, as many mares give little or no indication that they are about to urinate.'

So, as you might imagine, it wasn't easy for a farmer to find a good horse urine collector. But those who did reaped the benefits. Around the time Stevenson published his article, millions of dollars were being paid to farmers in Quebec and Western Ontario for their equine fluids. Why? Because these fluids contained a precious commodity: oestrogen.

Taking oestrogen was, and still is, an effective way to relieve the symptoms of menopause. As one of the main female sex hormones, it's combined with synthetic progesterones to create hormone replacement therapies. Initially, though, women who wanted to take oestrogen had to undergo expensive, twice-weekly injections. It wasn't until 1941 that oral oestrogen - still prepared from horse urine - was available commercially at a price that more or less anyone could afford.


Oestrogen is perhaps better known today as a component of another widely used pharmaceutical product: the contraceptive pill. The form most often used in the pill is the synthetic compound ethinyloestradiol, commonly known as EE2 - levels are carefully balanced with other hormones to stop the ovaries releasing an egg. Besides the distinct advantage over its natural equivalent of being prepared in the lab rather than from horse urine, EE2 is also up to 20 times more potent when given orally. Hans Inshoffen and Walter Hohlweg realised this late in the 1930s when they fed it to lab rats. But to understand it, you have to know a bit about oestrogen's chemical structure.

The molecule that provides the basis for EE2 is oestradiol, one of three main forms of oestrogen that are produced in humans, the others being oestrane and oestrone. All three have a four-ringed steroid structure. In oestradiol, the addition of one vital acetylene group to the end ring turns it from oestradiol, as you would find it naturally, to EE2, the form that's used in the pill. In other words, sticking on a couple of triple-bonded carbon atoms and a hydrogen gives you a synthetic hormone that's 20 times more effective. The reason for this is that the acetylene group blocks liver enzymes that would otherwise put the hormone out of action.

So we've now got a potent form of oestrogen that we can synthesise by the bucket load without going anywhere near a stable. And we've got a 99 per cent effective method of birth control that's taken by millions of women. Great. But where does all that synthetic oestrogen end up? Well, just like in horses, it ends up as a waste product. Unlike in the horses though, there's no one standing around waiting for ladies to relieve themselves, so most of it goes into the water supply. And it's leading scientists to wonder what all these synthetic hormones are doing out there.

In one recent study, the type of oestrogen that's used in the contraceptive pill was added to a test lake in concentrations comparable to those found in waste water. These are very low concentrations. But after just a couple of summers, the male fish in the lake had started to produce egg proteins - according to the scientists, they were becoming feminised. As it happens, some fish are known to switch genders at some point during their lifetimes, but in this case it was one-way traffic. And it does beg the question: what other animals might these synthetic hormones be affecting? Well, no one's entirely sure, but it could be bad news for men, as some studies have shown that environmental oestrogens are damaging to human sperm cells.

Incidentally, those fish experiments were carried out in Canada, where in the 1930s, as we know, any fit, agile young men who could be persuaded would have been breaking a sweat trying to collect a pint of horse urine so that a few measly milligrams of oestrogen could be extracted. Just decades later, there's more oestrogen floating around than a horse farmer could ever imagine, but perhaps more than would have been desirable for any of those fit young men.


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