sanitation
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Sewage From Passing Plane ‘Splattered’ Man In His Garden
Scottish comic Billy Connolly has a sketch about a machine that throws human waste out into the air whenever you flush a plane toilet. He calls it the Jobbie Weeker. It’s all very funny, and very much not how plane toilets work. But that hasn’t helped one unsuspecting gardener who was showered in shit from…
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A Mystery Outbreak of Salmonella Has Sickened People in 25 U.S. States
A sweeping outbreak of Salmonella bacteria has sickened people in at least 25 states, health officials with the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention have reported. So far, though, the exact source of the foodborne illness remains a mystery, and officials are asking for people with a suspected stomach flu to report it to…
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17 Million Gallons of Raw Sewage Spills in Los Angeles
Stretches of beaches in Los Angeles are closed after 17 million gallons of untreated sewage spilled into the ocean following a mechanical failure at a water treatment plant Sunday.
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In Love, Death, and Robots Season 2, Poop Droids Are the Future
Netflix’s wild sci-fi animated anthology Love, Death, and Robots returns next month with tales of post-apocalypses, children in haunted houses, and flying techno-whales. But it’s the AI pooper-scooper in this new trailer for the show that has me the most intrigued.