TIL you produce about three and a half metric tons of feces and 38 000 liters of urine during an average lifetime.

They suspected. They couldn't confirm it.

It was Bono's dad

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fD99wnP7r_g

``Doesn't seem fair if you count diarrhea. All that water weight.

If so, it's probably someone with cholera

My $ is that it’s been someone in the last 30 years who is a big eater with an opiate habit.

I am currently in process. Haven't stopped pooping for 17 years.

Fisting with IBS, hey?

I thought cooking bacon naked was playing dangerous games.

The average density of human feces is approximately 1.06 grams per milliliter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_feces

Normal stool (Type 4) typically has a diameter of about 1 to 2 cm http://d2xk4h2me8pjt2.cloudfront.net/webjc/attachments/73/57bbee4-bristol-stool-chart.pdf

Radius = 0.75 cm

Density = 1.06 g/cm³

Mass = 3,500,000 g

Volume = 3,500,000 / 1.06 = ~3,301,887 cm³

Cross-sectional area = π × 0.75² = ~1.767 cm²

Length = 3,301,887 / 1.767 = ~1,868,000 cm = 18,680 m = 18.7 km

So 18.7km or 11.6 miles

That would depend on the tightness of the anus

Are we talking about someone who squeezes out pencils, or a log-dropper?

Was an outlier and will not be included in this study.

The problem is that human feces carries a lot of human pathogens.

So, what you're saying, is that they don't understand shit.

One could wonder why modern agriculture systems don't use free human waste

Nah, you're supposed to shit in a bottle and cover it with a balloon and leave it in the sun until the balloon is inflated and then inhale.

Not without additional steps, a shoebox for big boots or being malnurished.

For reference, a large normal shoebox can hold 10-11kg of water, which is about the same mass as a year of dried average and healthy expulsions(~29g per day). And without compressing it as it dries or other methods, the tarp-dried feces wont be as dense as water.

It should also be mentioned that there are people who produce over three times as much, simply because they eat a lot more.

I am the one who shits. 😤

A corollary to that: we spend our entire lives moving shit from one place to another.

Works for both definitions.

https://extension.psu.edu/what-is-sewage-sludge-and-what-can-be-done-with-it

Approximately 99% of the wastewater stream that enters a treatment plant is discharged as rejuvenated water. The remainder is a dilute suspension of solids that has been captured by the treatment process. These wastewater treatment solids are commonly referred to as sewage sludge.

At present, almost all sewage sludge produced in Pennsylvania has been treated and is of sufficiently high quality to be classified as biosolids. Somewhat less than half of this material is disposed of by landfilling or incineration, while the remaining biosolids are recycled to the soil by use in agriculture, mine reclamation, landscaping, or horticulture.

The ocean. Such a waste

Well theres good news and bad news.

Good news is that it's organic matter that can easily change form.

Well it should be going back on the crop land. The circle of life.