What Happens To Poo After You Flush?

What Happens To Poo After You Flush?


Though we may think we pump out roses when it’s go time on the ivory throne, nobody in their right mind would actually want to keep those roses around. So flush them away and down the magical toilet they go! But where do they go? To the vague destination of the sewers. And then where? To the ocean? To the city “river”?

To anywhere that’s away from here? AsapScience explains the cycle of poop, from your bowels into the system with condoms and pebbles through bacteria and sludge into fertiliser for more poop. [AsapScience]


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