Men of Britain, save the world: pee in your compost heaps!

(You have to have a compost heap first, a real one, not a Second Life one). It turns out that separating urine from loo water is an energy-intensive process. I’m not taking the piss. New Scientist wrote about it, and no less a personality than Francis Maude MP, former chairman of the UK Conservative Party admitted, nay bragged about widdling on his compost heap (under cover of darkness, he is a gent) on BBC radio.

It’s a good policy (adding nitrogen to the rot-down pile) and so far just about the only one the Conservatives have got.