Once you flush where does it go?

Question

So you flush, it goes to the sewers, then to a sewer plant, where its filtered. But the S**t (literally) that they filter out, where does it go?

Answer 1

in really old fashioned systems it all gets pumped out to sea.

if there is a sewage plant, it is settled and filtered out, then it is either;

dried and burned

dried to a sludge and spread on fields

sometimes heat treated (thats safer) and spread on fields

and the most modern and best system, pumped into a bio-digester where bacteria break it down, producing methane gas which is used for fuel, and a lovely safe crumbly compost, much nicer than the sewage sludge and ready to plant things in.

mmmm luverly muck, its such a useful thing and we just chuck it away!

Answer 2

It goes into a water treatment plant to be "cleaned and purified" ...ja,ja ...and turned back into drinking water again.

(this is for real, that's why our tap water taste so awful) ...the clean water from the reservoir and from the mountains is wasted in irrigating the golf courses and filling the rich people swimming pools...and jacuzzis. Yuck, yuck...

Answer 3

**** would become mulch and also used as fertilizers when it dries up, basically f***s in other words would become soil when dry...

Answer 4

I always flush twice because it's a long way to Washington D.C.

Answer 5

In the word flush it self. It is called 'by nature'. Let us put the answer in the mode 'sh' for silence. Its is the same as 'Where does the flu go after it leaves your body?' Gone! you'll answer. Sure it is gone.  FLUSH. S**t out from your sight and leave it to rot.

Answer 6

After it is filtered, it gets sent off to become fertilizer to help golf courses or your yard

Answer 7

The fecal matter is not actually filtered out.  It is "fed" to bacteria and other microorganisms that live and grow in the sewage treatment plant.

In the treatment plant, the raw sewage goes into large tanks called aeration basins, where there is a very high concentration of both oxygen and bacteria, as well as sewage.  The organic material in the fecal matter and other components of the sewage are metabolized by the bacteria, in other words, the bacteria use it as a source of food.  In doing so they essentially turn it into carbon dioxide and other waste materials and in turn grow more bacterial cells.  This process creates a residue, commonly called sludge, that is composed of these bacteria and waste materials.  This sludge is collected at the bottom of the tanks.  The water, which is now much less contaminated than when it went into the tank, is drawn off at the top, and usually gets additional treatment before it is either released to some river or stream, or in some cases reused for irrigation or other non-drinking water uses.  Some of the sludge collected from the bottom of the tanks is returned to the tank to keep the process going.  The excess sludge is either landfilled or in some cases applied to the land as soil conditioner or fertilizer.

So, the short answer to your question is that the fecal material (the sht) ends up as new bacterial; cells, carbon dioxide, and sludge.