Toilet questions

[LadyG]

12 minutes ago, Goliath said:

 

used to be called the ‘Night Soil’. 

That would be the stuff that was collected by men in days gone by, solid waste, probably mixed with ashes, it was removed in a solid state, not flushed down a water closet.

The sewerage system came later, piped to dedicated sewage farms just outside of towns and cities. The filter beds separated the liquids from the solids, and at one time the solids were dumped at sea, until the EU decided otherwise.

Modern processing centres do it differently, but there is still a residue, which may be incinerated, however the raw input today does contain unwelcome residues, which would not have been present two hundred years ago.

We know that processing is not perfect, and raw sewage still ends up in rivers, "inadvertently "

Edited January 19, 2023 by LadyG

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

8 minutes ago, LadyG said:

and at one time the solids were dumped at sea, untill the EU decided otherwise.

yes, just comes back in with the tide

 

I understand it still goes on though

[Alan de Enfield]

21 minutes ago, Goliath said:

 

used to be called the ‘Night Soil’. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 19, 2023 by Alan de Enfield

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

4 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3000 tons?

Now that’s a proper shit load!

 

 

 

Vacuum pump for removing night soil from cesspools. From ‘The Practical Magazine’, London, 1874

 

 

[magnetman]

It must have been a number of yars ago that Bow was in Middlesex !

[ditchcrawler]

29 minutes ago, LadyG said:

That would be the stuff that was collected by men in days gone by, solid waste, probably mixed with ashes, it was removed in a solid state, not flushed down a water closet.

 

I thought the thread was about using compost from separator toilets on food producing land,  that is dry with no flushed water

[magnetman]

8 minutes ago, Goliath said:

3000 tons?

Now that’s a proper shit load!

 

 

 

Vacuum pump for removing night soil from cesspools. From ‘The Practical Magazine’, London, 1874

 

 

 

An oversized self pump-out system? 

 

I have always felt uneasy about using a self pump-out system as it seems that gravity is a better solution. 

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

Yes, the lad on the right looks a bit worried. 
Prepared to run I’d say. 

[IanD]

16 hours ago, Goliath said:

Yes, the lad on the right looks a bit worried. 
Prepared to run I’d say. 

 

http://www.monologues.co.uk/Sketches/Shower_of_Shit.htm

[David Mack]

3 hours ago, IanD said:

 

http://www.monologues.co.uk/Sketches/Shower_of_Shit.htm