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manure: how much, per second and per year

manure · from farmed animals, tonnes
produced
3.5 billion
a year
111
a second
9.6 million
a day
human sewage, for scale
500 million
a year
15.8
a second
1.4 million
a day

method FAO livestock excretion estimates; US EPA for the livestock:human ratio; human sewage as an order-of-magnitude comparator.

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