What happens after you flush?

[Dachsie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyU34Fhi0FY#t=553



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyU34Fhi0FY#t=553

What happens after you flush?

Published on Sep 4, 2014

Humans have always peed and pooped, but where it goes after we’ve done our business has changed a lot. In fact: The water you just drank may well have been a part of someone’s urine just weeks ago! SciShow explains!

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We have some "good soil" product the City is pushing and selling that is made from sewage. It is called "Dillo Dirt."

More and more human waste is being put into U S soil and therefore into the vegetation that we buy at the grocery store.

If we push this reasoning - what I think is called "reductio ad absurdum", we end up with

Soylent Green!

[Neuro]

When in Pakistan many years ago I went out in the cotton fields with a jug of water to shit. What's the difference really? Apart from now you have commercial middlemen taking a cut? Shit is soil improvement and plant nutrient, always was, soylent green is a different thing... What does the author suggest sending shit into outer space and let plants starve?

[Dachsie]

I don't know. Pepsi was using aborted fetal cells to make the flavoring for their product, but maybe has stopped now.

Some companies wants to use donated human celebrity tissue to make salami.

I think there were hospitals in England recently that were burining aborted babies and other human tissue to keep the furnacnes and heating going in the hospital.

We do seem to be moving in that direction. Mexico has for a long time been growing their vegetables with soil nourished by human waste. I try to not buy any veggies grown in Mexico and there are many like that now in the stores.

I think the reason we have had less infectious disease in the USA is that we have been very careful about sewage treatment and disposal but there seems to be a definite change in the wrong direction for that.

That video I posted a couple of weeks ago about that open camp in NJ for the homeless was a place that just had outhouses I guess and people who were not under any rules for sanitation. I think there are more and more people illegal immigrants living like that in small apartments in cities and not disposing of human waste by the city sanitation system. There is much waste just going to the city dump in the regular trash. The smell anywhere near a city dump area tells the story.

[palani]

In the days of outhouses (little buildings with one or two holes generally) what went into them were soil amendments called NIGHTSOIL or BLACKWATER. These are valuable private property under common law.

What goes into the pipes established by the city to collect this nightsoil now also contains cleaning or photographic chemicals and the mixture is called SEWAGE. This sewage is closely controlled and regulated because it really is toxic and the nightsoil becomes worthless as a garden amendment as a result of being mixed with dishsoap, toilet cleaning chemicals and all the other chemicals.

[gunDriller]

my guess is, communities that are able to discuss the resource implications of sewage handling are the communities that have the best chance to survive the economic contractions and other changes facing the US.

it takes a lot of water to process sewage as it's done in the US.


California, for instance. 50 million people flushing every time they pee, in a state that's facing extreme drought.


If an extra-terrestrial had a chance to evaluate that behavior, they would double-check & triple-check us for signs of intelligence. "they seem intelligent ... but they're out of water ... and they're using more water to flush their excretions."

behavior trumps test scores.

Americans are stupid, based on behavior.


I recently used pee, diluted, to water a house-plant. nothing much happened. it grew a little bit.

[osoab]

I read an article about a town in Colorado that sends it's treated waste down river. About 20 miles downstream of that they have the wells sunk for the city water supply.

[crimethink]

Thank God for the hydrological cycle. That urine ends up in the ocean, evaporates, and comes down as rain before I drink it. :)

Sorry to the people who live downstream of "treated" sewage. Not just yummy piss & shit, but also a smorgasbord of excreted pharmaceuticals.

[palani]

Thank God for the hydrological cycle. That urine ends up in the ocean, evaporates, and comes down as rain before I drink it.
One evaporative cycle is not sufficient to remove disease markers from water.