Comment by RhysU
3 days ago
I mean, there's human shit in Central Park. I once watched some genteel ladies hilariously clean up before an Easter egg hunt one morning. Surprise!
If you want to prioritize removing one type of Central Park shit, the list is probably human then dog then pigeon then horse.
Ok I’ll bite:
30 horses in the park, 6h per horse per day, uniform pooping
Call it 14 kg of feces per day per horse
Humans shit ~100g/day
115k park visitors a day
For humans to match that horse output, nearly 1% of all daily visitors would have to be pooping on the ground…
Granted, the horses have waste catchers, but even under a 90% efficiency regime it’s still 10kg of horseshit spread over the lower loop
Great math!
You overlooked the sentient-omnivore-who-leaves-makeshift-toilet-paper disgust multiplier.
If that factor is set to 100 (consider how inoffensive horse pucky is vs finding a year-old's soiled diaper) then we're talking 0.01% of 115K humans matches the horses.
That's only 11.5. Did 12 people drop one in Central Park today? That's one duece for every 70 acres.