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• I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide…
• The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.
• In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as sexy, and…
• The first thing I did when I decided that I was going to dive into the world of poop was look at…
• I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against Thames Sewage,…
• A humpback can transmit a sound across a whole ocean. But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a whole ocean,…
• Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to China to be…
• Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in…
• There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live.
• Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount of stuff.
• There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the…
• The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.

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