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 2018 when they installed four of the urinal planters. "Independent evaluation showed that there was  50 per cent decrease in wild peeing after installing the GreenPees", GreenPee inventor Richard de Vries told Dezeen.
"So Amsterdam wanted to expand the project and place more GreenPees in the central district of the city."

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.
"Cities told me there are no people on the streets, so there is no need for public facilities," he said. "Hopefully this will change and there will be no further lockdowns in the near future."

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