Poop... Where does it all go??
 

I just finished looking through a Poop tread and it got me thinking.
Where do city's put it all??
How do they make it all dissapear.
Please oh please dont tell me farmers are using it.

You've seen the space shuttle, right??

The poop gets treated and pumped back out to sea once the bacteria is at acceptable levels. I saw this in a cartoon once.

Two words....

nitro humus

It goes to a sewage treatment plant where it enters a skimmer that seperates the floating stuff from the sinking stuff.
The solid parts are sent to a large digester tank where they are allowed to decompose. The digester tank gives off methane gas which is used to generate electricity in most cases.
The liquid is further strained, then it goes to large aeration tanks where bacteria eats most of the remaining organic substances.
Eventually it is cleaned enough so that they can add a bit of chemical and then it goes to the ocean or river or wherever.

After the solid parts are done in the digester they are pumped through a filter press that dries it out. What is left is used as fertilizer or dumped in special landfills (AKA Bakersfield).

I consulted on a design project for a couple of sewage treatment plans in the mid 90's.
So,.... from now on you can't say I don't know ***** ;) ;)

the sludge does go to farmers.

and the water, gets cleaned so we can drink it. yum

Puka- You guy's in hawaii have all the good cartoons. Damn.

LOL!...too bad they all G rated.

Vash- Thats a convenient cycle and your right about the Yum part but I hope you are kidding. Seriously, I hope your kidding.

I've always been taught to flush twice so that my poo-poo can make it all the way to Texas.

Ever hear of Milorganite??

Now thats just plain ugly. I'll cut you some slack cuz you live in a territory that can barely claim itself to be a state!

As for the destiny of poo - some processing plants will take in and compress it into a solid cake about the size of a hockey puck. It them gets burned or land filled.

I thought it went to Detroit...nobody lives there anymore.

You ever seen a tomato plant growing in the middle of a bean feild???

Do ya wonder where that tomato seed came from.......

not always, but its likely that it came out of someones butt.

I just shot a tomato seed out my nose...


My question has always been: Why does poop have to smell so bad?


KT

Re: Poop... Where does it all go??
 

Just look around you son! It's everywhere! It's in the newspaper, on the TV...and it's piled really, really high right here in Pelican Parts off-topic lounge!

-Moses

(5ooo posts, most of them proudly piled on the OT dungheap)

Va-poo-rize!!!

So blind people can hate it too?

Ed

if it smelled good we'd call it something else :)

who would've thought the poop thread would branch out :D

Funny you should ask this question. Have you checked out " Libs and Honor, why Shauns $500 check bounced?" I think some of the poop is being diverted there.

This is such a shi*ty topic.

Poop is totally uncool.
Keep it away from me, off me, out of smell range, out of sight, out of my path. Arggggh:mad:


KT

Democratic Convention?

I like watching some of the shows on History and Discovery...Modern Marvels for example...and there was a show about sewers not too long ago. Fascinating stuff that most people never think about. Here in LA, much of the crap (literally speaking) ends up at the Hyperion treatment plant in El Smelligundo near LAX.

Ever hear of soylent green?

OT - everything fit to poop.

When I was at FSU we went on a field trip to the wastewater treatment plant. The tour guide was going on and on about how clean the water was after the treatment process. We all chuckled. So he walks up to a spicket on the side of one of the holding tanks, grabs a cup sitting next to it and fills it to the brim.

He tilted that fuc_king glass back and DRANK the whole thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I guess it is pretty well treated.

The sludged is processed into a flat 1/4" thick mat that is then broken into pieces. Then its used to fertilize farm Fields.

Re: Poop... Where does it all go??
 

One of my many summer jobs was working at a waste plant. They basically take the primary material (liquids, poop, rainwater, and everything else goes down toilets, drains and sewers) and flow it into a a big rectangular tank with a conveyor belt at the bottom. The pump oxygen in the tank and the "sludge" settles to the bottom. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploads7/aeration_tanks1145450365.gif[/img] There it is usually incinerated and then shipped to landfill. The stuff that doesn't settle goes into a secondary tank. Did you every notice those circular tanks?http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1145450344.jpg [img]

The aeration tanks are treated with some beneficial bacteria and more oxygen and eventually pumped back into the sea, river, or lake nearby.

It rolls downhill. I thought it was common knowledge.

poopli, on the other hand, is an entirely different concept.
www.poopli.com

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1145454741.jpg

Poop doesn't stink, the bactreria in it stinks.
The bacteria is necessary for digestion, and also to break down the poop into organic materials that are beneficial to nature like fertilizer. Eventually the bacteria eat everything they can and then die, that's why poop stops stinking after a while.

To the guys who have ever been to a waste treatment plant:

Ever notice that a condom that has been flushed and is floating in the skimmer is about 2 feet long? Dunno why. Must get stretched during the process.

First time I went to one of those places I pointed and said "hey look at that mouse".
Turns out it wasn't a mouse, it was a discarded female hygene thing.
EWWWWWWWW.

a couple poop observations, and current waste water applications-

here in the bay area they are starting to use this "reclaimed water" for irrigation in parks, roadside landscaping, and other non food-stuffs irrigation. i anticipate problems in the long run, can anyone remember MTBE in gas? something thought to help the enviorment actually hurt it.

regard trekkor's comment, how does a turd stink up an entire room when it is only in the atmosphere for the 6" from a-hole to water? what's, thats like 3 seconds tops, and it can stink a whole room? poo is mean that way.

sometimes when i eat corn i dont chew a couple mouth fulls on purpose. corns great, it can be enjoyed a second time, nothing like freeing a 10 inch corn-back-rattler!

now ive got some paper work to do.

I think a lot of the poop settled in the thread about Shaun's bet.

it's true..sammy does know ****! :)
ryan

i had a great time visiting a waste water treatment plant. as a matter of fact, i have a job offer to work at one. i just dont want to move to salinas.

we are lucky, in some countries it must be hell. take venice, where does that crap go? isnt that city on water? imagine mexico city?!!!