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Every Halloween something spooky shows up at the local wastewater treatment plant.
It is not the ghosts of goldfish passed, its the ridiculous volume of Halloween candy wrappers. Trash, if you will.
Now, while trash is a topic treatment plants will bore you with (think about those flushable wipes!), pollution caused by candy wrappers is real and only people who spend a decent amount of time dealing with it will speak up and say anything about it. So here goes:
Nobody wants to talk about condoms, but everyone wants to talk about sex.
After the long winter holiday we find ourselves celebrating the Hallmark of holidays… Valentine’s Day. If you had my eyes, you would know that Hallmark isn’t the only one making a profit on this day of love. Trojan, Durex and Lifestyles are where the real money is made and pollution occurs.
Halloween is fast approaching and soon millions of candy wrappers will strangely find their way into the sewers. How do the two interact? Easy!
As parents and dentists have encouraged for countless years in the past – eating Halloween candy is bad for your teeth/health. But kids will be kids and will eat their hard earned candy treats. Where is the best place to hide the evidence? By way of the toilet, of course!
You go to the store and pick out the most delicious looking tomato. The clerk scans its’ barcode and you take it home. When you’re ready to eat it, you wash it in the sink and that little barcode comes flying off and right down the drain it goes. You think nothing of it. “Out of sight, out of mind.”
Except that sticker/label went somewhere. In most cases, it will travel through miles of underground pipe, making its way to a wastewater treatment plant where it will go from tank to tank through various pipes and eventually the water it’s floating in will be clean enough to be dumped into a river or bay and eventually, it will end up in the ocean.
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