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Poop Train
Episode 162

Poop Train

You may not give a second thought (or backward glance) to what the toilet whisks away after you do your business. But we got wondering -- where would we wind up if we thought of flushing as the start, and not the end, of a journey? In this short, we head out to trace the trail of sludge...from Manhattan, to wherever poop leads us.

Radiolab

September 24, 201322m 56s

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Show Notes

You may not give a second thought (or backward glance) to what the toilet whisks away after you do your business. But we got wondering -- where would we wind up if we thought of flushing as the start, and not the end, of a journey? In this short, we head out to trace the trail of sludge...from Manhattan, to wherever poop leads us.

Topics

healthshortsnorth_river_wastewater_treatment_plantlifetechnologysewerfrederick_kaufmannycbusinesspoop