The National Film Board of Canada made a film about sewage – S E W A G E. I did not think there’s a film about this subject and I came across it accidentally but damn was that film interesting, an eye-opener you may say. It’s called Crapshoot: The gamble with our wastes. The films answers questions like: Where does the sewage go, what happens with it then, what does it do to us?
First it comes up with a list of what sewage involves: food leftovers, cleaning chemicals, detergents, toiletries, hair dye, paint thinners, pharmaceuticals, excrements, industrial solvents, paper mill residue, oil, cleansers, radioactive material, dental & hospital wastes, petroleum products, heavy metals … keep going, what else can you come up with? There’s almost nothing that’s not in sewage. Sewers have become super highways of toxic waste and hazardous components. Now think about what goes down your drain every day and what should not and why.
The film points out that water is being used to transport a lot of waste somewhere else where we don’t see it any more and simply forget about it. But whatever gets mixed together in sewage can not be simply taken apart again! Sewers were never designed to treat the water to a stage where it becomes as clean as before. They were only designed to get rid of grey water. The most modern waste water treatment plants can not separate all the stuff that’s in our grey water so the water goes still contaminated back into water bodies, our rivers and lakes and oceans. Considering our dependence on water for drinking and food purposes alone it’s ridiculous how we waste water for purposes like sewage, as a medium to quicker transport waste “away” from us. Remember, our planet Earth is still roundish – it will all come back to us.
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