Peeing in urnials

Amsterdam has taken a bold new measure to tackle tourists urinating in the street: installing special plant pots that double up as urinals. The idea is for late-night revellers who are caught short to use the planters, which kill two birds with one stone: they prevent people from peeing on buildings or in alleyways, and the urine collected is used to make fertiliser. Urine is regularly collected from the planters for processing and phosphate harvesting, and GreenPee inventor Richard de Vries insists they are odour-free. We came up with the idea of a planter to help keep the city green and provide something we can make fertiliser from. Cities in France also installed outdoor urinals during the coronavirus lockdown as many public toilet facilities were forced to close.

Dutch company GreenPee has installed eight hemp -filled sustainable urinals in Amsterdam to combat an increase in people urinating in the streets after the coronavirus lockdown ended. Amsterdam council rushed to install the public urinals in the city centre as tourists returned and pubs reopened. Users urinate into the openings on the sides of the GreenPee planters, which have an internal tank filled with hemp fibres from the cannabis plant. The tank is emptied when full, and levels can be checked manually or by using a smart sensor that sends a message when it's nearly full. Once emptied, the mix of urine and hemp can be used for organic fertiliser for the city's parks, roof gardens and urban farms. Amsterdam city council first collaborated with GreenPee in when they installed four of the urinal planters. Despite global reports of the coronavirus lockdown creating a lack of public toilets , it has caused a drop in demand for the GreenPees, de Vries said.

These planter-like urinals are Amsterdam's answer to the problem of 'wild peeing'. The city of Amsterdam is going green in an attempt to combat an age-old problem -- public urination. The local council has installed eight hemp-filled, sustainable urinals in the city's "wild peeing" hotspots.

A person with paruresis typically has a sensitive, shy, conscientious personality and is fearful of being judged or criticised by others. Paruresis can be mild, moderate or severe. If a person can only successfully urinate when home alone, they may avoid leaving the house.