The Human Footprint (2)
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 country in a day are 2.5 million tampons, 1.4 million sanitary towels, 700,000 panty liners. and 270,000 condoms.
3,800 nappies are disposed of every day. 2.5 billion are disposed of each year. Nappies are the largest contributor to landfill and take 500 years to decompose.
Bt the age of five, we will have produced more carbon dioxide than that of a person in Tanzania over their lifetime.
A total of 40 tons of waste are sent to landfill sites over a person’s lifetime.
May 15th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
3,800 nappies per day seems a very small number, and doesn’t match the 2.5 billion per year figure. Is it perhaps 3,800 nappies per baby?
Are nappies really the largest contributor to landfill? Where did you find this information?
May 15th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
This was my source:
http://pilotgcseradicalgeography.co.uk/2007/04/28/the-human-footprint/
But I probably misread the data – 3,800 nappies per baby sounds more credible.