# Up to 20 lbs of poop!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-to-20-lbs-of-poop/944148>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 12, 2021, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-to-20-lbs-of-poop/944148 "2021-06-12T21:56:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 28

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-to-20-lbs-of-poop/944148/28 "2021-06-14T10:08:43Z")

</div>

The Chinese don’t waste anything. On back roads, I saw villages with their community latrines up on risers, to facilitate collection of shit as an agricultural fertilizer. Assuming a pound a week per capita , a billion Chinese would produce 25-million tons of annual outpoop.,

In a rural roadhouse restaurant, there was a trough under a wall accessible to both sides. People squat-shit on one side, and hogs could be heard noshing on the other. Best Canadian bacon I’ve ever tasted.

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-to-20-lbs-of-poop/944148)._