Where Does Your Sewage Go? | I Didn't Know That
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2013
- Visit the Becton Sewage Treatment Works-one of Europe's biggest plants-which processes sewage from 3.4 million Londoners into water clean enough to return to the Thames.
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Ever feel useless? Remember - your crap is used for fuel.
lol
skydragon4ever lol
skydragon4ever you meant felt
no, u can use both
skydragon4ever what if you feel useless and you're also constipated? 😁
Thanks to all the sewage workers. You all deserve major respect!
True
right
Completely!
yeah lets repect for this people for what they've done
Why do they deserve respect?
It's actually pretty impressive how they literally burn dried shit in order to power the plant. There should have been a commentary on how strong the smell was at each step.
+jakenbaked87 can't imagine the health hazard of inhaling burning shit must do
+jakenbaked87 i know right! it is awesome! this is a real need bro!
This made me laugh because it's true lol
hm, i think they simply burn the methane release by human excrement, the only by products are water, CO2 and heat. The only downside of CO2 is that it is a greenhouse gas.
It's called Biomass energy
So where's my sleeping goldfish.
lmaoo, I was just thinking about that.
probably in a rats stomach
Austin Taylor how did your goldfish do that?
It probably made it back to the river where he lived a beautiful life until he turned fat and died
Its a teenage mutant ninja goldfish now
Someone shat a car?
thebabadeep xD
LMFAO!!!
You know the feeling
We all do
Someone just does know it quite literally.
LMAO!
SHAN , not a whole car. Just half of one!
Imagine falling in that water
E J spiderman do
i imagined it, now what?
Tak Giant 😂
Tak Giant now go and actually do it
I would be traumatized for life.
Raw sewage is sent to a holding tank in Hollywood, where it serves as an inspiration to television writers.
David Lafleche underrated comment lmao
Why is this not top comment?
Knower of truth ahaaaa.....that is a good one...put that on top.!!!!!! Hollywood......another slimy cesspool...probably the worst in many, many ways.
Great comment hahahahaha
Nearly choked on my apple X'D
I can smell it through my phone screen.
I've been to a treatment plan before, the smell is worse than you could imagine
Oh no
Maybe your phone smells like that
The local sewage treatment plant near my town does public TOURS. Trust me the smell is something you don’t forget for a long time.
@@elkillerx they do TOURS? Wtf?!
was he holding a clump of shit in his hand at the end? lmaooo
it's 'sludge cake' apparently it was his birthday
Half a car? I've heard of people shitting bricks but half a car?! Half a fucking CAR?!
+Conor Somers
One of our pumps managed to get a full set of wheels from a car stuck in it one by one.
You find all sorts of stuff stuck in the machines, unfortunately (but thankfully very rarely) you find corpses.
+Nw.Caffers Excuse the pun but that sounds like a pretty shit job!
*****
Muchlel
Topkek :)
+Nw.Caffers Corpses???!!! 😱
Conor Somers 😂😂😂😂
This documentary is the shit.
Shut up
+AbuTareq M No
Really? You gotta be shittin' me
no u
By reading this i am sure that the tall man's brain is too short.
Wow. Excellent job! Nice to see that the water gets cleaned. I had always thought that the sewage pipes went straight to the ocean.
Some pipes do...sorry
Burger which ones
LeDank James storm drains go straight to the ocean
They used to for a very long time in history and probably still do in developing countries. But in most western countries they're treated!
In most developing countries, raw sewage goes straight to the rivers which is even worse.
I'm extremely impressed with these systems precisely because they're such an essential part of life we take completely for granted and don't even think about.
This guy's enthusiasm with the whole system - he absolutely loves it. It's funny and cool at the same time.
we sure have come a long way from dumping our sewage from a bucket onto the street 150 years ago.
Like they still do in India ?
Ezra Brooks pretty much
@@googleaccount8652 Such a waste. They could use that for farming like Matt Damon did on Mars.
@frogthis They dump directly on the street itself. one less step
@frogthis So what about all the poo poo beaches they have? literally like cats except they rarely cover it up after finished.
*trying to flush a car down the toilet*
Oh, you're probably wondering how I got here.
Pixel XDDDDDD
Lmaooo
Can you imagine falling into one of those tanks?
It was the car from My friendly Martian.
Probably a Toy car
I went for a quick late night jog to relieve some stress , and there is a raw sewage treatment where the road is. I was maybe 15 feet away, the smell got in my throat, so I just tried not to breathe, then on the other side of the road was some kind of roadkill. The roadkill smelt like warm rotting meat sitting in a summer dumpster that got sprayed with perfume.. The combination made me heave like so hard I thought my eyes were going to shoot from my sockets.. So terrible.
You should probably reconsider your jogging locations lol.
+Sebizzar Hahaha yeah, I now go in the day.. Screw that at night, saw two big Green eyes in my path about 70 feet away and just dart into the woods, and It seems they process the sewage only at night for some reason.
On a few of our treatment sites, the bacteria and chemicals used during the process can, in fact, cause mutations for animals within the surrounding area. proper niceeeee
dafuq?
Hot
Can you imagine the smell in that place? And he doesn't even have a mask on.
@Craig F. Thompson In actuality it is very foul and gassy.
He loves the smell what u on about best smell in his life.
Pretty sure hes use to it
he definitely would have a mask on now
Any mention of masks is just a trigger for anybody after the pandemic
Interesting shit
mike patrick i see what u did there.
@@gavinreid123 ha
That was a good one 😂
What do you do when shit happens? You do science!
This comment is five years old,
Reply to me grandmaster
recycling drugs and viruses
Poop powered, poop processing plant.
PPPPP
This actually puts my mind at ease when it comes to water, the process is a lot "greener" than I thought- thank God
I'm just I impressed by this entire system... Its so elaborate and every step has a purpose... Its pretty amazing
how did they flush half a car down the toilet ?
That's what I wanna know too.
They probably put it in a compactor, shredded it then flushed the remains down the toilet 1 at a time
+Joshua Guitar
Most likely it got in through an open sewer, not through a toilet.
Some of the sewers are easily big enough to fit a small car.
Joshua Guitar the world is a magical place my friend
Nw.Caffers
The comments section is always more interesting than the video itself :P
For real the comments are common
Here before the video even start still on the add 🤣
:)
It's mind blowing that the whole process only took hours. I've always thought it took days, at the very least..
I've Never Seen So Many Puns About Shit On One Comment Thread......
I know right? It seems that it *literally* hit the fan here.
im only here because i got high af last night and someone asked me where our shit goes. like where does it really go.
it went between your ears - and comes out your mouth
7
Literally me right now lmao- from a reddit video
wow that's awesome it's bio degraded !! and shit is burned to provide 75 % of the power for that place! cool nope i didn't know that :D learn somethin new every day
I'm wondering if the host has some sort of disability, wherein he can't smell anything.
It actually doesn't smell so bad depending on where you are.
+Andrew K Yeah its really not all the bad.
In my opinon fresh vomit smells ten times worse.
Nw.Caffers True. Vomit is MUCH worse. Butyric acid has one of the worst smells I've smelt.
He is probably used to it
I worked in a similar plant, most of the time it smells like wet soil, especially near the aeration tanks. The sludge handling areas have a much more foul odour, and I would typically hate myself for the time I was in that part of the plant.
Really clean, I was with my collage at one of such facilities, I was quite fascinated how much care they give to details. Plus, the byproduct is natural gas and artificial fertilizer.
2:41 he's holding a sludge cake
yummy!
I remember finding tiny bits of toilet paper in the drinking water in Denver Colorado...true story! 💩
Lmao LOL... you should report it to Denver water governing body
i live in denver too
a mile from a sewage place
you must be confused. literally no way this could happen
@@jerkchickenblog indeed, it’s totally impossible
Liar
you better be paid so fucking well to work there
alexxx I'm not.
It's all automated.
For my AP (like an American-only IB class) Environmental Science class, we went to a water treatment/sanitation plant here in St Paul, Minnesota- very similar, but on a much smaller scale!
APES was such a good class
Amazing, excellent work done.
Ah so that's where half my car went after it accidentally fell down my toilet
That dude must have a nose of steel
My dad worked at a sewage treatment plant and they would find aborted fetuses and such in that sorting machine thingy.
That's horrible who flushes dead babies down the toilet!!!! 😡
They should be buried instead!😡
Ugh
😢
I find that very hard to believe considering an "aborted fetus" is essentially a blood clot that wouldn't even be recognizable at a plant 🙄🙄🙄
that is so sad
2:41 is he holding crap? O.O
our poop powers our lives since they did say that it gets incinerated and turned into power :)
Yep, Biomass
My teacher made me watch this in a zoom lesson.
Was he just holding a ball of shit??? I wouldn't want to step within 20 feet of that building...and the smell? doesnt it smell like crap 24/7?
Chemicals
lol Well treated dehydrated sludge doesn't really smell bad (but rather like earth). It depends on how good the treatment is though.
Yep
Jeff, if you only knew that all of the worlds water has been someones pee at some point in the millions of years earth has had life on it and earth has been cleaning the water itself :D
***** They do but they can also make it worst.
"so you'll be pleased to know today process is alot more refined, IT JUST TAKES 4 HOURS TO BE PUMPED OUT TO THE RIVER" 😂😂😂😂
Well not everywhere has good sewerage but yes that's the standard practice. Oh and one tidbit they didn't mention is that during high rainfall the drainage systems are overloaded, to prevent floods the untreated sewage is discharged directly into rivers.
How clean is "clean enough"?
drinkable
Ignorance
Hence proved if we use the right way everything is useful . Impressive video .
Wow~ It's brilliant👍
pause the video @1:28
and see his face lol
the gaming zone they even haf half a cah here
he looked like someone just grab his peen and chomp it down lol
You look like acting like 5
the gaming zone lol
He must be related to Donald Trump
I say he should of drank some of that water so he can tell us how it taste😂😂😂
This is amazing!
I've always wondered the process, thanks for rhe video
2:42 is this dude holding shit?? 😶
Freddy Garcia 😂😂😂😂😂
They cuttet the part when he was about to eat that cookie
That’s your moms tampon
Sludge cake
How it's made
Sewage
Curry and Taco Bell
Need some pepto
Chocolate pudding.
I was in the bathroom taking a dump and flushed the toilet and I thought, where does this stuff go 🤔 it brought me here. Amazing video!!
Have seen and heard of Sewage, from a treatment plant, that has this dumped by dump trailers on farm fields, prior to being loaded, driver spreads out 2 small hay bales to avoid sticking and drying for the product, then loaded, trucked, delivered, then empty.
Dang I was hoping my goldfish would do some Nemo type of stuff and have freedom.. rip mr big bubble balls.
the sludge is used to make McDonalds hamburgers
no wonder I got sick😂😂😂
Awesome. Love the improvement.
2:27 Sewage! It's brilliant! - never seen somebody so excited about sewage.
It's fcking brilliant 😂
Did he eat the brownie and take a dip in the bubbly pool?
😂😂😂
Very smart idea! Turning it into fuel :)
There's one 30 miles away from my place, and ironically next to a grave center LOL
does anyone know how can i stream/downloads the full episodes. I remember watching them aired on TV but now i could not find it anywhere.
And ours sludge goes directly into the holy river GANGA
I know - there are videos of it online. I pray some time soon that changes.
It's horrible that things are still like that there. Everyone should be safe in today's day and age. Prayers that it gets straight once and for all. It's sad to see it knowing the horrible effects of has on health and quality of life. 🙏🙏🙏
This is so disgusting, I have huge respect for anyone who works there
Ive been to one of these places for homeschooling and let me just say it is a great place to stay
Thanks UA-cam recommendations
i dont wanna live near a processing plant. because in times of flood... ewwww
I want to swin in it
drink it
Eww hell no lol
You should go to Rio
how do you swin?
You need serious help
1:26 Who flushed a car down the toilet😂😂
This makes me feel so unclean even though I had a shower less than half an hour ago lol.
Was he just just holding 💩at the end🤔
Basically comes right back out your shower and sink 🤢 ya
This was amazing
thanks for sharing
A major part of the sewage clean-up process could (and in some cases, does-) involve the removal of most all the organic solids, in the form of sludge which could feed anaerobic digesters, where the decomposition of solids produces (releases) about 3 parts CO2 per one part methane.. Thus, nearly every thing one would need to produce large volumes of high lipid (biofuel) algae. The surplus methane could power generators to operate proper spectrum grow lights for night time operation. Unfortunately, the EPA has laws against such carbon-capture use of digester (waste gas) CO2.. The fossil fuel industry has "protection" in high places.
+Carl Lelandt
The firm i work for has an anerobic digester, google "bran sands advanced anaerobic digestion"
+Nw.Caffers have you got used to the smell yet?
+neanam m Digesters don't smell. Properly functioning, their contents, sludge/gasses, etc, are completely contained inside the digester, since the gases (methane) are flammable, and leakage is dangerous. Of course, there can be "open" processes around such facilities that can smell.
+Carl Lelandt (I'm referring to "anaerobic" digesters.). Interestingly, when anaerobic digesters are shut down and opened up for cleaning/maintenance, they smell is that of used motor oil, such as that drained from ones car motor, at least with the ones I worked around.
you must work at a sewage plant?
God bless that man for talking with his mouth wide open right next to that nasty germ infested sewage that probably smells horrible so we can learn this information. And God bless him more if at anytime off the recording of this video, the wind blew some of that sewage up into his face/mouth.
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AMAZING!!!
Brilliant!
How the fuck did someone flush half a car?
I think working in swage treatment plant would be a interesting job
do you have a strong odor tolerance though
It isn't. Trust me.
Its better than little cesars
Involves certifications. Lots of math and chemistry
did you get in any similar jobs
I had no idea London was that populated...well learn something every day...london sludge, sounds good!!!😉
I remember this show. Nostalgia T_T
This is beautiful. I think this, along with toilet paper has been one of man's greatest inventions.
I didn't know that
I know that
Took a trip to a sewage treatment once for a college class.. Never again did I feel like going to the beach.
Amazing!
I wanna go swimming in that bacteria
FishSlaya you look like a bacteria
I'm dying with these comments ☠️😂
go inside a vajayjay instead
Same
The voice of the woman must be the woman from fifth gear...
I loved his passion👍😀
Used to play footy nearby;the smells everywhere
Eww London shit , that sounds repulsive . I bet their diet is horrible over there
😤🖕🏿
is anyone watching this in 2048
Ip Man 2017
i was
2018
Me😂😂
Almost😂
Also, they still use a press down there?
Thats a bit old school hahah!
Wooow. That's amazing. :D
A nice honeymoon spot for Indians....🤣😂
When he says "It's brilliant", his face was saying "...and smelly!".
quite impressive!
I can’t even imagine accidentally falling into one of those