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Report: Florida professor wants to water The Swamp with fans' urine

Published Dec. 17, 2015 5:41 p.m. ET

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They call Florida's home field The Swamp, but if an idea from environmental engineering professor Treavor Boyer comes to fruition, the new nickname for the Gators' field may not be nearly as clean.

Boyer sees a huge opportunity going to waste, no pun intended, each and every fall Saturday in Gainesville. The professor reportedly wants to repurpose fans' urine into fertilizer to be used to help grow the field.

The Florida professor recently shared his thoughts with the New York Post:

The ammonia would then be used to fertilize the field. Would Gators fans really go to this length to water the grass?

“What you’ll see is that you can collect enough nitrogen over those seven home football games to meet the nutrient requirements for that field for the growing season,” said Boyer.

“So you collect urine in the storage tank. Then what you want is for it to sit for a period of time, probably on the order of several weeks. That allows it to change chemistry and it is an important change in chemistry where the nitrogen goes from urea, which is excreted from our metabolism and it gets transformed into ammonia.”

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