how many tons of excrement,urin and bodily fluids are created by an 80 y.o.woman in her lifetime?

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and what is their impact on the planet

thank you to all of you answerinos for the interest shown in my question,but please use metric system when giving quantities,no pounds, gallons,feet and other body parts as unity of measure!

Have you ever heard anyone at the pub asking for a PINT of urine?

Answer 1

You're bored aren't you? ;)

let's say that in an average week one would produce about 2-3 (maybe 4 or more if you really eat a lot) pounds of excrement.
52 weeks in a year, 80 years.

On the lower end you would then have about 8000 pounds of poo. Maybe less, since older people eat less, and young children eat less as well. But let's say between 8000 and 12000 pounds of excrement.

You urinate more or less what you consume in water or other drinks (plus from fruits and vegetables etc, but then you also sweat, produce spit and so on), let's say you drink a quarter gallon a day (they say 1-2 qts a day is best, right?).
365 days a year, for 80 years, so roughly 7000 gallons of urine. Probably a bit less. The rest will go to sweat, spit, and misc bodily fluids.

Don't know what you want to do with the info, but there's my guesstimate :)

About impact on the planet ... dunno, circle of life, conservation of mass and energy etc... Most will be fertilizer or food to bacteria/plants etc. Finally it all ends up on our plate again, as the bacteria/plants consume from the waste, and animals consume the plants, and we the animals (or the plants) and so on and so forth

Answer 2

Why is this question sexist and "ageist?" If the poster had asked the question of an 80-year-old man nobody would be complaining.

Anyways, a few answers were probably pretty accurate; it would hover somewhere around 20 tons of waste, just doing the math offhand with an assumption of about 10 pounds per week.

Answer 3

Why would you care unless you are responsible for disposing of it? There is no exact number, only generalities. A woman of 80 who has never weighed more than 90 pounds and is five feet tall will have produced a lot less than a woman of 80 who is six-foot-two and has weighed in a 180 pounds most of her life. You see the difficulty right away, don't you? As for environmental impact, that is largely dependent upon disposal methods. One who spent her life in a remote area of the world with only a shallow hole scooped in the sand for a toilet will have other impact than a woman who spent her life in Manhattan with modern plumbing. Lacking more precise questions, that's the best answer you'll get for now.

Answer 4

1st 30yrs average two dumps a day minus constapations and diahreas and 3 pisses a day now 31-60 (your stuff starts slowing down after 60) average a little less ball park figure =21900 pnds of excrement and 32000metric tons of urine now add 61-80 yrs half of first figure 32850 pnds of fesces and 64000metric tons of piss so what is the impact on the planet? I just don't know.

Answer 5

Probably enough to fill up an entire Olympic-sized swimming pool. When you think about it, it's a wonder that the whole planet hasn't been transformed into a huge ocean of sewage.

Answer 6

I think your question important, why does there have to be an impact on the planet? Surely all is recycled one way or another. The isn't a poop mountain, a lake of pee, or a glacier of snot any place I know.

Answer 7

never heard anyone ask for any measurement of urine in a pub, let alone a pint.....although theres probably gallons of piss all over the floor of the mens toilets.......

Answer 8

This is a good question. I see where you are going with it.

A 80-yr old woman has leeched off society for most of her life. From age 60-80+ her medical bills skyrocket. One truly has to question at what point the economic question(s) must be asked.

Answer 9

extraordinary after my 4th daughter grow to be born. I have been given to the hosp at 10:15ish, and he or she grow to be born at 10:24. i grow to be launched from the hopital via one million:00 ish that comparable day to get on with corporation... all i gots is strawberry shortcake

Answer 10

i know for a fact the amount is amazing as I am a nurse aide and they chit their weight every other day...ewwwwww and they pee all over the floor when you try to bathe them..but its gotta be a 1100 cc.s yech