'On a hot day, it's horrific': Alabama kicks up a stink over shipments of New York poo
by Oliver Milman in New York from Environment | The Guardian on (#3HWJQ)
New York sends its treated sewage to other states to avoid dumping it in the sea - but it has plagued residents with a terrible stench
New York City is the beating heart of global finance, a cultural behemoth, and home to more than 8.5 million people who create an enormous amount of poo. Some of this expelled waste has been causing a major stink 900 miles away, in Alabama.
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