Taking a Piss out of the World Cup
This World Cup has been billed as the most environmentally friendly to date with organizers going out of their way to make it easy for visitors to take mass transit to the games and to do little environmental damage once inside the stadium. One area that hasn’t benefited from the environmental efforts is the Fan Mile in Berlin. The long stretch where hundreds of thousands gather to watch games in located in a forested park whose trees are in danger of being killed by those whose bladders can’t hold in the beer.
With only 280 urinals and more beer being consumed than you can ever imagine it has been a recipe for disaster and there is little wonder that many are choosing to perform nature’s call in, well, nature.
“The urea sinks into the ground as ammonia. In small quantities this is a good fertiliser, but too much acidity is bad for the soil and could damage or even kill the trees,” warns Tilman Lamparter, a biologist at Berlin’s Free University.
One a positive note, the area has remained well watered as the fans from losing teams continue to shed enough tears that should keep things green for months to come.
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