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Flush! Where does our poo and pee go?

Brains On! Science podcast for kids

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Big Fat, Happy Ending

In the US, sewer pipes are around two feet wide. Sewer workers spray one end of a fatberg with high-powered water jets and suck it up with a big vacuum. England is a different story; some of the sewers in England are big enough for a grown-up to stand up in. That's where we start getting these big, massive, blue whale-sized fatbergs.

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