Where does the sewage go nation wide?

Question

I also wanted to know where does your sewage go from your house and other places even school. I guessing they go in to rivers lakes and oceans. Who invented toilet paper and recyled paper? What is recyled toilet paper made out of? Please answer and thank you!

Answer 1

It goes to the Rat Poeple,we sent a pen cap with a message in it through a toilet at school and it came back a few weeks later

Answer 2

When sanitary sewage arrives at the wastewater treatment plant, it first gets primary treatment, screening out the big stuff (towels, sticks, alligators...). Then, the heavy particles are allowed to settle out and the scum is skimmed. Some treatment plants stop here and dump the raw sewage into a stream. Most plants go on to secondary treatment, allowing bacteria to break down the sewage. Still more sludge settles out at this time. This is the sludge that is sometimes sold as soil conditioner (Milorganite, Philorganic ...). The most advanced plants have tertiary treatment, which lowers the load of nitrogen and phosphorus before discharge. Eventually all the liquid gets dumped into a stream.

Recycled TP is not made from used TP. It does have a large amount of recycled paper in it but the paper is more likely to be old newsprint. Bond paper that gets recycled is usually used for more expensive recycled paper.

Answer 3

They go to a place to be cleaned. There its purified and sent back to the natural world

Answer 4

the sewage goes to a local waste water treatment plant. where it is processed back into drinking water and human waste fertilizer.

Answer 5

Don't know about the U.S. but in Canada - at least on the pristine Pacific Northwest left coast, raw sewage is pumped straight into the ocean http://bccondos.ca/forums/viewtopic.php?... Can you imagine? A full member of G8 doesn't even send sewage to a treatment plant! No wonder the U.S. won't sign Kyoto. Americans are sufin in hoser scat!

Answer 6

The sewage is treated in a public or private wastewater  treatment systems or in an on-site septic tank.  The history of toilet paper is given in the first reference.  The others are drawing, pictures, and details of sewage treatment.  Recycled toilet paper is made from newspapers and office paper.  Toilet paper itself is never recycled, it is made from other recycled papers.

Answer 7

...oceans....??? why do you want to know that?!?!!?!? your weird!!! lol i love it

Answer 8

Where does your sewage go, judging by things in the US, it must be getting delivered directly to:

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20500

Recycled toilet paper was invented by some guy they called the "Corn Cob Man" or "Fingers Malone".

Answer 9

Our sewage goes to waste treatment and then it is released into a leech field where it goes into the river. The water is environmentally safe but not drinkable. Our drinking water comes from the village well, not recycled sewage water. I doubt any one else drinks recycled sewage either, because that would be too costly, and dangerous. There are some things that nature does better than technology.

Rolls of perferated toilet paper was developed during the American depression to improve sanitation.

Recycled toilet paper is recycled from newspaper, or writing paper and that is the last time you will use the paper.

P.S. All the run off from the streets goes directly to the river. It would be too costly to treat it all first and that is sad because of all the pollution it brings with it. We fortunately have a lot of swamplands here and that run off is mostly directed through these first, and  the pollutants are filtered and broke down by swamp grasses.

I also heard that we can't filter out hormones from our waste water, and our estrogens are infiltrating the oceans' ecosystem and causing most of the fish to be born female. Good thing to research! We have apparently known this since the 50's.