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Summary and conclusions<br />

In the autumn of 1998, Storstrøm County initiated the project "Collection,<br />

storage and utilisation of <strong>urin</strong>e from Møns Museumsgård" (the museum<br />

farmstead of Møn). A summary of the project report is presented below.<br />

Chapter 1: Preface<br />

In order to clarify how <strong>urin</strong>e can be recycled in Denmark, Storstrøm County<br />

initiated the project "Collection, storage and utilisation of <strong>urin</strong>e from Møns<br />

Museumsgård Møns Museumsgård". The project was funded by the<br />

Municipality of Møn, and by the Danish Environmental Protection Agency<br />

through the "Action Plan for the Development of Ecol<strong>og</strong>ic Renewal of Towns<br />

and Wastewater Treatment". The initiators of the project were Møn<br />

Museum/"Museumsgården", Den Grønne Guide på Møn (the Green Guide<br />

of Møn), A & B Backlund ApS (a private limited company) and Storstrøm<br />

County. T<strong>og</strong>ether they developed and planned the project.<br />

The wastewater from "Museumsgården" contains a high quantity of <strong>urin</strong>e and<br />

a small quantity of unidentified substances, and this makes the separation of<br />

<strong>urin</strong>e by way of source-diverting toilets and the utilization of nutrients<br />

reasonable. Contrary to a private house, there are many different users of the<br />

toilets at a museum. This fact makes it possible to test a segregating<br />

wastewater system under somewhat difficult circumstances.<br />

One of the purposes of the project is to collect experience in the installation<br />

and use of a source-diverting toilet system, including a waterless <strong>urin</strong>al, at the<br />

"Museumsgården" and to compare this with experience from Sweden.<br />

Another purpose is to examine the constituents of the <strong>urin</strong>e, including<br />

whether the contents of nutrients, heavy metals, micro organisms, and<br />

xenobiotic organic substances will change d<strong>urin</strong>g storage. Moreover, the <strong>urin</strong>e<br />

collected was compared with other <strong>urin</strong>e mixtures and fertilizers on the basis<br />

of these parameters.<br />

Storstrøm County has not carried out its own test pr<strong>og</strong>ramme, as the Danish<br />

Environmental Protection Agency initiated the project "Assessment of the<br />

possibilities and limitations of the recycling of nutrients from town and<br />

country households " (Dalsgaard & Taarnow, 2001).<br />

The toilet system at the "Museumsgården" was established in April 1999.<br />

Experience from the installation and operation was collected d<strong>urin</strong>g the<br />

opening seasons 1999 and 2000, and partly d<strong>urin</strong>g 2001.<br />

Chapter 2: Test pr<strong>og</strong>ramme<br />

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