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Where Does Poop Go When Flushed?

Marcus Vance • • 7 min read
Where Does Poop Go When Flushed?
When you press the flush button, your wee, poo, toilet paper and water go down a pipe called a sewer. The toilet flushes the wastes down the sewer pipe. The sewer pipe from your house also collects and removes other wastes.

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In this manner, where does the poop go?

From the toilet, your poop flows through the city's sewage system along with all the water that drains from our sinks, showers and streets. From there, it goes to a wastewater treatment plant.

Similarly, what happens to our sewage? All wastewater follows the same route, wherever it comes from. It is guided down drains and into sewers that run under roads. These carry the water, now called sewage, to the waste treatment or sewage works. Sewers can get blocked by fat that's poured down sinks instead of binned.

Correspondingly, where does sewage end up?

Water leaving our homes generally goes either into a septic tank in the back yard where it seeps back into the ground, or is sent to a wastewater-treatment plant through a sewer system.

What does poop taste like?

Talk me through what human shit tastes like. Human faeces taste bitter because of bile, which is secreted by the liver and stored in the gall bladder. The food crumbs left inside faeces are tasteless. We assume that the taste of faces is relatively caused by the scent.

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Is it OK to poop in the ocean?

But it turns out that your own poop is actually more dangerous than those beasts. A study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology reveals that all the feces-related germs that eventually end up in oceans are actually harmful to beachgoers who go in the water.

Do we drink water from the toilet?

In some parts of the world, the wastewater that flows down the drain – yes, including toilet flushes – is now being filtered and treated until it's as pure as spring water, if not more so. It might not sound appealing, but recycled water is safe and tastes like any other drinking water, bottled or tap.
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