One of the great things about Thanksgiving in Michigan, besides spending time with family and going fort long walks with Solomon, is that Joel wants absolutely nothing to do with me. This means I get time to sit with a hot (very very hot) cup of Matt's delicious coffee and read a book!
What did I read this vacation, you ask? Well, I learned all about poop, or sludge, and what happens to it when it leaves our bodies! This is a subject of intimate and incredible interest to both me and Joel. Our poop goes into our back garden via our septic tank which includes a finger system that leads to our vegetable garden! Therefore, we are recycling our waste.
Across from the road from us is a lift station. The lift station lifts poop piped in from the shopping malls north of us. No house in our neighborhood is connected to the sewer. Once a week petit environmental visits the lift station and does something insidious to it.
Anyway... most poop in the US goes to treatment plants. There the poop is cleaned and the effluent goes back into our rivers. The poop is dehydrated into pellets that is sold to.... The middle East! In England the pellets are used as crop fertilizer, but Americans don't want their own poop fertilizing the soil.
What did I read this vacation, you ask? Well, I learned all about poop, or sludge, and what happens to it when it leaves our bodies! This is a subject of intimate and incredible interest to both me and Joel. Our poop goes into our back garden via our septic tank which includes a finger system that leads to our vegetable garden! Therefore, we are recycling our waste.
Across from the road from us is a lift station. The lift station lifts poop piped in from the shopping malls north of us. No house in our neighborhood is connected to the sewer. Once a week petit environmental visits the lift station and does something insidious to it.
Anyway... most poop in the US goes to treatment plants. There the poop is cleaned and the effluent goes back into our rivers. The poop is dehydrated into pellets that is sold to.... The middle East! In England the pellets are used as crop fertilizer, but Americans don't want their own poop fertilizing the soil.
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