k Feces and urine disposal in Tokyobarrels of feces and urine placed at a soba noodle restaurant delivery place In Tokyo, apart from the rural areas of the city, the average daily amount of excrement is enormous, over 9,000 kiloliters. Of this, 2.3 million are flushed, only 30 percent, 1.5 million are put into digestion tanks or manholes, and 1.91 million are loaded onto ships and dumped into the sea. The remaining 1.73 million are returned to farming villages as fertilizer, but the amount dumped into the sea sometimes flows to beaches due to tidal currents, and the demand for the return of fertilizer to farming villages has been decreasing recently due to the increased use of chemical fertilizers. A barrel of feces and urine placed at the delivery place of a soba noodle shop in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo, May 1959 photo by Tokumitsu Iwago Mainichi Graph, June 21, 1959, page 17 Editorial Stock Photo - Afloimages
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Feces and urine disposal in Tokyo barrels of feces and urine placed at a soba noodle restaurant delivery place In Tokyo, apart from the rural areas of the city, the average daily amount of excrement is enormous, over 9,000 kiloliters. Of this, 2.3 million are flushed, only 30 percent, 1.5 million are put into digestion tanks or manholes, and 1.91 million are loaded onto ships and dumped into the sea. The remaining 1.73 million are returned to farming villages as fertilizer, but the amount dumped into the sea sometimes flows to beaches due to tidal currents, and the demand for the return of fertilizer to farming villages has been decreasing recently due to the increased use of chemical fertilizers. A barrel of feces and urine placed at the delivery place of a soba noodle shop in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo, May 1959 photo by Tokumitsu Iwago Mainichi Graph, June 21, 1959, page 17
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Feces and urine disposal in Tokyo--barrels of feces and urine placed at a soba noodle restaurant delivery place

In Tokyo, apart from the rural areas of the city, the average daily amount of excrement is enormous, over 9,000 kiloliters. Of this, 2.3 million are flushed, only 30 percent, 1.5 million are put into digestion tanks or manholes, and 1.91 million are loaded onto ships and dumped into the sea. The remaining 1.73 million are returned to farming villages as fertilizer, but the amount dumped into the sea sometimes flows to beaches due to tidal currents, and the demand for the return of fertilizer to farming villages has been decreasing recently due to the increased use of chemical fertilizers. A barrel of feces and urine placed at the delivery place of a soba noodle shop in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo, May 1959 (photo by Tokumitsu Iwago) Mainichi Graph, June 21, 1959, page 17

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