We-Pee News

The Germany children's charity Haiti Kinderhilfe has been using the we-pee urine separators in new composting toilet blocks that are part of a school and kindergarten building project in Haiti, where there is an urgent need for new educational buildings and sanitary facilities. In rural areas of Haiti where there is currently no electricity or infrastructure, composting toilets play a vital role in providing essential facilities that do not require any electricity or water.

Dry toilets — also known as composting toilets — fit perfectly with the ethos of tiny living. Environmentally friendly, simple to use, no plumbing required, and a clear answer to one of the biggest challenges of off-grid life: what to do with human waste in a space the size of a garden shed. For tiny house owners, vanlifers and boat dwellers, a compost toilet makes sense in so many ways. No water tank to lug around for flushing. No black-water tank to dump. No sewage hookups to find. And as a bonus, the system captures valuable nutrients that can be...

We are pleased to have posted our first urine separator to Alaska today. This now adds to the many countries that we have already posted urine separators to. UK, Germany, Spain, France, Mexico, USA, Korea, Japan, South Africa, Australia, New Zeeland, India, Portugal and Nigeria. Postage is included in the price to anywhere in the world so give us a challenge.

We have just finished reading this book and cannot recommend it highly enough as a good toilet book! Life of Pee, the story of how urine got everywhere. Alchemists sought gold in it. David Bowie refrigerated it to ward off evil. In the trenches of Ypres soldiers used it as a gas mask, whereas modern-day terrorists add it to home-made explosives. All the Fullers, Tuckers and Walkers in the phonebook owe their names to it, and in 1969 four bags for storing it were left on the surface of the moon. Bought and sold, traded and transported, even carried to...

Throughout the years we've come across some pretty surprising uses for urine. This humble yellow liquid — a by-product secreted by our kidneys — has proven to be a remarkably versatile source of sustainable power and a vehicle for some seriously experimental design. Here are six examples we've come across, ranging from the practical to the genuinely bizarre. Some will make you reconsider where waste ends and resource begins. 1. For heating a house The Barn House in Japan's Memu Meadows is an award-winning experimental dwelling heated by urine. Designed by Keio University's Co+Labo department, it shelters two humans and...