Video details what happens to human waste after it goes down the sewage pipe

Aug 7, 2013 20:21 GMT  ·  By

This might come as a bit of a shock to some people, but toilets don't send poop to a magical, mystical land from where it is never to return.

Quite the contrary, human waste sooner or later works its way back into our lives. Check out the video above if you don't believe me.

The clip, titled “The Poop Cycle,” details what happens after we flush the toilet.

Truth be told, this isn't exactly the sort of video one might wish to comment on while in polite company.

Still, the fact remains that, if it weren't for sewage pipes and waste-processing facilities, the world would probably look very different from how we know it.

Not to mention the fact that there would be a lot more diseases, and environmental contamination would be a very pressing issue.