2. The Fatberg/Raw Sewage
Human waste sure smells extremely bad, but what is even worse is a huge pile of it, mixed with diapers, congealed fats and oils, and all the nasty things we throw down the sewer clogged up and rotting in one place.
Imagine just how bad one individual’s fresh waste smells and think of the offensive and sickening smell that can come out of a 15-tonne ball of raw sewage, which has been accumulating for a long period. The above situation describes what is commonly referred to as the Fatberg, a situation in 2003 where sewer workers in London discovered a bus-sized build-up of waste that had reduced a particular London sewer’s efficiency to less than five percent. The smell coming out of the Fatberg was so disgusting that it is even hard to find words to explain just how terrible it was.
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