I know people who would not eat anything out of a garden if they thought it was fertilized with human urine, so I feel like if I put urine in the compost I use on vegetable beds, I should disclose it. And since I don't, frankly, see me doing that, I've refrained. Is this a non-issue? I don't share with people that I use chicken, cow, and horse manure, because it's not an unusual.

This was in the UK in the early 1940s, and using pee like this was considered perfectly normal.

I pee outside when gardening (have a pretty big lot so there's plenty of privacy) but can't think of an easy and unobtrusive way of collecting pee from inside so that I can dump it on the compost.

The guy's comment (on the other link posted) about women's urine being more acidic and therefore less desirable seems ludicrous. How acidic is it? Why is acidity bad? Oak leaves (acidic) and shellfish wastes (alkaline) are both fine compost feedstocks, and as any reputable source will tell you, the composting process begins on the acidic side and moves toward a neutral finished product - it sorts itself out.

Another thought. We live in a climate similar to Britain's, generally speaking: maritime cool and wet. Straw left outdoors ends up wet through and through from precipitation, sooner or later. Urine is a mild nitrogen source. I expect it to speed up the rotting but not in some miraculous way. Moisture alone will do that with time.

Paulns, this might be a thread for you then.

We get pretty regular rain here too, so things break down reasonably well. But it still makes sense to me to use pee on the compost or on a hay bale just to conserve water and avoid putting unnecessary strain on the septic system.

..The idea of starting a community garden (not the same as allotments?) has come up a number of times here but is always quashed almost immediately by fear of vandalism, which is likely well founded.