So I m just going to be straight up ... where does are waste as in ...?
Answer:
it goes down to the pipes that lead to sewerage treatment plants, then they use chemicals to break it all up,
It varies from place to place. Most often it goes directly into lakes, rivers or the ocean. In developed countries, most sewage receives some treatment before being discharged.
There's an interesting book on the subject called Garbage Land by Elizabeth Royte. A New Yorker, Royte has the same curious questions as you. She traces all of the waste that leaves her apartment to its final resting place, including toilet waste, trash, and recycling.
If you live in a city with sewage treatment facilities, your waste will flow to the sewage plant, be filtered and digested. Any remaining solids will be landfilled, and the treated water will be returned to the waterways.
Downstream, then filtered, then evaporates. Solids can be spread over certain cropland or trucked to landfills.
Depending on where you live, yours, and everyone elses flows to a waste water treatment plant where it is broken down at an excelerated rate by bacteria and eventually discharged to a waterway.
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