Funeral Home and Human Waste....?

Question

A sewer line in my city stopped up and had to be unclogged by a jet machine....., the line leads to the funeral home. Literally, blood and guts bubbled out of the line. Is this legal? Can funeral homes legally wash human organs down the public sewer system?

Answer 1

no - they can't.

Answer 2

Yes, it is fine don't worry about it.

Answer 3

Oh, what a terrible waste. They could have made tons of Soylent Green from that!

Answer 4

Been watching too many George Romero movies lately, huh?

Answer 5

butchers do it--its legal

in fact biological materials aid sewerage plants in their treatment of non biological inputs (dyes, mineral oils and chemicals from cosmetics etc)

Answer 6

I worked here in the uk for 12 weeks in a funeral home and they used to pour the goo after the embalming down the drain.... All kindsa c**p used to go down but yep it legal but wrong

Answer 7

I assure you that no "guts" came bubbling out.  No guts or organs are removed during the embalming process, therefore they could not have bubbled out.  The blood is washed directly down the drain, and yes, we are allowed to do this.  It poses no threat to the public.  When people who have AIDS and Hepatitis use the bathroom do they have to do something special to their waste?  No, and neither do funeral homes.  People bleed, deficate, vomit and all kinds of things into the toilet everyday and then flush it down.  We do the same thing.  It is all treated at the wastewater treatment plant.  You have been drinking the water for years and to my knowledge, no one has died from it yet!!