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The Human Footprint (2)
May 15th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
In an average lifetime, you will expel wind 12-25 times a day representing 1-1.5 litres of gas a day or 35,815 litres altogether. You will use 4,239 toilet rolls to cope with 2,865 kg of faeces. Sewage is created at the rate of 150 litres per day per person, but also disposed of across the […]
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The Human Footprint (1)
May 14th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
On 26th April 2007, Channel 4 television showed a programme called “The Human Footprint”. The programme featured a host of fascinating statistics which are averages per person over a lifetime of 78.5 years. Of course, averages only tell us about typical behaviour and the figures will vary greatly between individuals, but I thought that each […]
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