Tag: #sewers

• London, as so many cities have done for millennia, uses its river for waste. In 1858 disease and ‘The Great Stink’ led to Sir Joseph Bazalgette’s super-sewer for 4 million people.

  

  150 years later the population is now closer to 10 million. This is what’s happening… Forward Thinking BC. To get a handle on how advanced the thinking was on ‘waste management’ thousands of years ago, the Mesopotamians had already figured clay sewer pipes around c.4000 BC. Utilised to remove wastewater, and capture rainwater in wells. But, […]

  markhendriksen

  Jun 18, 2020

  3Ps, Children’s Books, Human Waste, Loos and No. 2s, Sanitation, Sewage, Sewers, toilet paper, Toilets & Sanitation, Toilets Poop & Sanitation, Uncategorized, Water

  #bacteria, #balzagette, #civilisation, #combined sewer flow, #Disease, #London, #rainwater, #river thames, #runoff, #sanitation, #sewage, #sewers, #sir joseph bazalgette, #stormwater, #tideway, #treatment works

• Does my Toilet make sense? BBC CrowdScience Podcast

  Is it time to reinvent the flush toilet? Take 39 minutes while you’re home to get to know about your toilet. A brilliant podcast from the BBC’s WorldScience on that very topic. First released on May 15th 2020 and featuring Rose George author of the ‘The Big Necessity‘ published in 2009 (available on Amazon) Description: […]

  markhendriksen

  May 18, 2020

  3Ps, Animal Waste, Biosolids, Children’s Books, Human Waste, Loos and No. 2s, Sewage, toilet paper, Toilets & Sanitation, Toilets Poop & Sanitation, Water

  #BBC, #Books, #Childrens Books, #Flush, #Human Waste, #poop, #Rose George, #sanitation, #sewers, #sh*t, #Taboo, #Toilet, #WorldScience

• Planet Poop, ‘We have a problem!’

  

  Museo della Merda, Italy

  markhendriksen

  May 15, 2020

  Animal Waste, Biosolids, Children’s Books, Human Waste, Loos and No. 2s, Mosaic, Sewage, Toilets & Sanitation, Toilets Poop & Sanitation, Water

  ##Global Warming, ##Museo della Merda, #Air Pollution, #Biosolids, #Energy, #environment, #Fertiliser, #Fertilizer, #hygiene, #Landfill, #Livestock, #Methane, #Potholes, #Pottery, #recycling, #sanitation, #sewers, #Sustainability, #The Biggest Little Farm, #toilet paper, #UN, #wastewater, #Water Pollution

• Comment on our article 24th April 2020, from marine biologist Professor Richard Thompson OBE

  A couple of weeks ago, we wrote a post about the 3Ps in ‘Turn your toilet paper into a wet wipe + other news & views on loos & no. 2s‘ and potential ways to help the environment by not putting anything other than Poop, Pee and Paper (toilet paper) in the loo… We asked one […]

  markhendriksen

  May 4, 2020

  3Ps, Loos and No. 2s, Toilets & Sanitation, Toilets Poop & Sanitation

  #3Ps, #environment, #Kitchen Towel, #Marine Litter, #microplastics, #Oceans, #Paper, #Pee, #Plastics, #poop, #Professor Richard Thompson, #sanitation, #sewers, #Sustainability, #tissue, #toilet paper, #toilets, #Wet Wipes

• Latest headline ‘Stick to the 3Ps when flushing’…Bidets, and other considerations from ‘The Daily Poo!’ on loos & no. 2s.

  

  The 3Ps and ‘Proof before Panic!’ If you’ve not read this anywhere or, understandably perhaps not realised… ‘The use of tissues, wipes and kitchen roll is ‘clogging up the sewers!‘ Tissues, wipes and paper towels all contain plastic in their weave making them much stronger than toilet paper and therefore harder to break down in […]

  markhendriksen

  Mar 27, 2020

  Toilets & Sanitation

  #3Ps, #bidets, #Japan, #Kitchen Roll, #sewers, #Tap Water, #tissue, #Tissues, #toilet paper, #Toto, #TotoUSA, #USA, #Wet Wipes