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In conjunction with <a href="https://www.capecod.gov/departments/masstc/cape-cod-clean-water-week/" id="OWA43ed56dc-12b8-870d-c809-69f66804db43" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://www.capecod.gov/departments/masstc/cape-cod-clean-water-week/. Click or tap if you trust this link." originalsrc="https://www.capecod.gov/departments/masstc/cape-cod-clean-water-week/" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" style="margin: 0px;">
Cape Cod Clean Water Week</a>, the Rich Earth Institute is hosting a presentation at the Falmouth Library on Sept 19 focused on understanding urine fertilizer & safety considerations. Please invite anyone you know who's been concerned about this topic! Flyer
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Is Urine Fertilizer Safe? Understanding Pharmaceuticals, PFAS and More </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">September 19, 3:00 - 4:30 pm </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Falmouth Library</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Reclaiming human “waste” as a resource protects watersheds from nutrient pollution while giving farms a local, sustainable source of fertilizer. Communities across the Cape
and Islands are actively exploring urine diversion as an affordable, practical strategy for reducing nutrient pollution, including a funded pilot project underway in Falmouth. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">But applying fertilizer made from diverted urine on farmland raises new questions: What happens to the residual medicines in our urine? What about pathogens, heavy metals, and
PFAS? Rich Earth will share the latest research on the safety of urine fertilizer and place it in the context of other common farm inputs including irrigation water, manure, and biosolids. This presentation will support informed decision-making for safe human
waste management, clean water, and fertile farms.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Presented by Abe Noe-Hays:
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Abe Noe-Hays is the co-founder and research director of Rich Earth Institute, which operates the nation’s first community-scale urine recycling program, with the goal
of developing knowledge and advancing policy to help other communities access the benefits of urine diversion. Abe has lived with and used alternative sanitation systems since 1976 and has been actively developing technologies that transform waste into valuable
resources since 2000. </span></p>
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