Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you from Edinburgh.
My name is Dan Shriver and please welcome to the stage it's Anna Chazinski, Jane Tarkin and Andy Murray!
Once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
Starting with you, Andrew Hunter Murray.
My fact this week is that Antarctica exports used toilet paper.
Who wants it?
I see why they want to get rid of it, I want to know who wants it at the other end.
Well, it's not so much that anyone else wants it, it's that they can't leave it there.
So there are loads of different research bases in Antarctica.
They used to do very bad things,
they used to just dump it into the sea and that can obviously be very bad or it introduces foreign microorganisms which can then have knock on effects on the whole ecosystem.
So some people incinerate it now but there are companies which do tourism to Antarctica and they export feces and urine and used leaf paper.
So that's part of the holiday you sign up to is you go to watch them picking up used toilet paper.
It's not a big part of the itinerary.
But if you are doing an expedition to the pole or outside a research base you basically have to carry your own poo behind you on a sled.
Wow!
Yeah.
But the good thing is it freezes so it's better.
Wow!