Every day, America must find a place to park 5 billion gallons of human waste, and were increasingly unable to find the space. We wake up in the morning, brush our teeth, and flush the toilet, thinking that the waste-water disappears into the centre of the Earth. If only that were the case. Between 8 AM and 9 AM each morning, the waste output of Manhattans West Side swells from 70 million to 150 million gallons per day. This is known as the big flush. The sewage will eventually end up on a NYC Department of Environmental Protection Sewage boat, which will take the sludge to a de-watering plant on Wards Island, where the sludge will become bio-solids that can be reused to create golf courses, cemeteries, and fertilizer for the human food chain. Bio-solids have become a financial asset worth hundreds of billions of dollars, but its still possible that well go back to dumping our waste in the ocean. In this new documentary, VICE traces the trail of waste from butt to big-money bio-solid and beyond.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 15:34:49 +0000
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