Male pee is better than female pee as a compost activator

It’s less acidic. Really.

A National Trust park in the UK now has a pee bale for men to relieve themselves on (although not during visiting hours) to aid in the all-important composty activation.

Gourmet mushrooms from coffee grounds

Peets’s Coffee and Tea and BTTR have teamed up in a unique venture. Peet’s provides coffee grounds (that otherwise would be dumped in landfills) and BTTR uses them to grow different varieties of mushrooms.

They use about a ton of coffee grounds every two weeks, which is composted by local farmers when they’re done [...]