I know this might sound silly, but what happens to all the human excrement from our toilets?

Question

..and where does it go? Such a humongous amount of S!

Answer 1

two words: Taco Bell

Answer 2

Take a tourer of a treatment plant

Answer 3

After you flush, if you have a septic tank, it goes in there and you pump it out once a year.

If you don't have one (btw they're usually located in your back yard... the septic tanks i mean) then the waste goes through a channel of pipes into a waste development plant where they clean it and.... turn it into drinking water... they filter it really good and either it goes into store brand water bottles or it comes out of your faucets... sorry to gross you out!

Answer 4

In most municipal systems what happens is the effluent from the sewerage lines runs to a treatment plant, where the first thing that happens is the sewage is run through grinders that pulverize anything .  From there it is run through a series of settling tanks where the heavier solids settle to the bottom.  After that the wastewater is passed through ultraviolet lights and treated with various chemicals and after passing through filters is basically clean enough to drink.  From there it is usually discharged into some brook or stream and so is returned to the watershed.

The sludge that is collected from the settling tanks is hauled away and spread out in large open areas to dry in the sun, after which it is scooped up and ground up and then packaged in bags and sold as fetrilizer in home centers.  If you look on a bag of organic fertilizer that you get froma storeyou may see an ingredient called "biomass", and that is the processed sludge from waste treatment plants.

Answer 5

In a sane world it would be kept in ventilated, non-leaking tanks which in turn could provide methane for cooking fuel.  A railroad car sized tank would hold a family of fours wastes without using any water for over 50 years (bacteria eating bugs are used).   In an insane world  (here) it is retardedly mixed with pure drinkable water or previously deficated in and chemically altered water so that it can be turned into a city asset.  It's forced govenmental genocide all so they can turn a profit as the chemicals and bleaches used in the purification (?) process are highly unnatural and cancer causing.  This process is really a grounds for war and in time, more and more people will care about this.  And certainly so if they would take the time to care about it, unfortunately our lives are arranged so that we have little time for care and our energies are regulated as government sees fit.  Therefore over 330 million Americans dump over a billion terds into water unnecessarily each day.

Answer 6

It goes into a septic tank and little bugs eat it!

Answer 7

it goes to a sewage plant, where the solids are filtered from the liquids. The liquids are put through reverse osmosis, a process which makes the water pure enough to drink, and the liquid is dumped into a body of water. The solids are incinerated.

Answer 8

Depends on where you are, in a developed country it will get treated and then released back. In third world countries most probably it goes directly back to soil/river/sea depending on which is the easiest route.

Some people use it to make biogas and burn the gas as fuel while the waste goes as fertilizer.

In any case it finally lands up back in soil which is used by plants/trees for growth.

Answer 9

Well thanks for asking, it goes down through the sewers , to a sewer main in the street, to sewer treatment plant, where it is broke down and seperated and treated chemically. It varies from municipality to municipality. From sea to shining sea.

Answer 10

it goes through processing plants cleaned and reused

Answer 11

It goes to a treatment plant where the solids and liquids are separated. The solids are referred to as sludge and are used as fertilizer (not for growing food). Sometimes it is spread in a wet form but the more advanced plants dehydrate it and it is sold in a granular form to golf courses, sod farms and nurseries that grow ornamental plants.

Answer 12

It goes into a large sewer pipe and flows out to the nearest bay or ocean tributary. That's why there are fewer grasses growing and fewer fish,crab, and oysters. The fresh rain and water from rivers and streams are naturally filtered underground and sent to reseviors to

supply the new water to our homes.

Answer 13

Well it goes to the water treatment plant where it is processed and filtered eventually cleaned up and dumped into a stream or lake.

Find where yours is and take a tour you will just freak out.

Answer 14

It goes through a sewage and water treatment plant and back into our water supply.

Answer 15

Its piped directly to the white house and congress

Answer 16

sadly it goes to the ocean.... but now, they are beginning to find new ways in order to dispose the fetus.