When I visited the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales in 1976, the gents toilet was home to one of their exhibits, a gents urinal consisting of a bale of straw stood on end with a funnel pushed in the top. Visitors were invited to use it instead of the conventional urinals that were also provided! When it had been in use for long enough, the urine-soaked straw would be used as fertiliser. It was suggested installing your own in a quiet corner of your garden.
My recollection is that it didn't pong, unlike the typical gents today, where fitting the automatic flushing tanks with motion sensors to save water means that many do not flush sufficiently frequently to remove urine from the channel or bowl before it starts to break down, and have to be provided with perfumed blocks to disguise the stink. At one place where I worked, I occasionally used the gents on a floor mainly occupied by ladies. It used to be ok, but after the motion sensor valve was installed, in order to stop it stinking to high heaven, I put an old jug by the handbasins and used it to manually flush the urinal after every use.