Fertilizer from Urine Clean Rivers. Sustainable Farms.
Donate Urine in Vermont
Become a Urine Donor
Rich Earth Institute has operated the nation’s first community-scale urine nutrient recycling program since 2012, which reduces watershed pollution while creating a safe and sustainable fertilizer for local farms. Thanks to the contributions of over 260 urine donors, we support our farm partners with over 13,000 gallons of nitrogen-rich fertilizer each year. Community members who sign up as volunteer urine donors make this local cycle possible!
We currently seeking urine donors near one of our two urine depots in Southern Vermont:
✍️ To sign up as a urine donor, email with your interest! We’ll reach out shortly with next steps. In the meantime, check out our Urine Donor Instructions and peruse our offerings of urine collection tools.
Install a Urine Diverting Toilet
Streamline peecycling into your home or business by joining our program today with a urine collection installation. Rich Earth now offers free site visits and subsidized installations of peecycling systems for area homes and business including: Wostman EcoFlush Urine Diverting Toilets, Dry Composting or Urine-Only Toilets, Waterless Urinals (for public/commercial bathrooms), and hand-carry systems with stand-alone collection tanks.
✍️ To learn more about toilet installations, contact !
Rent a Portable Toilet
Rich Earth’s portable toilets are available for rent in the greater Brattleboro region. Bring peecycling to your next event, job site, wedding, etc – and allow your guests to experience the relief of relieving themselves in a resource-recovering toilet! Rich Earth coordinates toilet drop-off, pick-up, and regular servicing – and brings your waste back to our processing facility to be transformed into a valued resource for local farms.
Urine Donor Spotlights
Here is what some of our donors have to say:
I love this project! I love not wasting water for flushing toilets.. I love that you guys transform my “waste” into your/ the community’s “resource”.
I like contributing to hard science and being a part of groundbreaking work.
It’s wonderful knowing that I am participating in something that is potentially shifting the paradigm of how we manage human waste.
Read more voices from our urine donors on these postcards, cyanotyped by the Ask The River artist collaborative using water collected from the Connecticut River–which we peecycle to protect!
After over a decade of recycling urine in Southern Vermont, the Rich Earth team is now helping other communities start programs of their own. With an ever-growing network of partners, we are working to galvanize peecycling infrastructure in new geographic hubs, protecting more watersheds and reaching new farm partners.
