Originally published at: Professional blockage busters battle monster fatberg in England - Boing Boing
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Please tell me you forgot a comma because I hope there is no such thing as “grease diapers”
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Is it really so difficult for ppl to use their wastebaskets and trash cans at home? Is it that hard to pour kitchen grease & oil into jars or the trash?
I guess being sensible is harder for more ppl than I’d realized.
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Southern Water – those well-known protectors of their customers and the environment. This is just one example.
50kg is nothing in fatberg terms, certainly not a monster, try 35 tonnes. Blockage busters battle baby fatberg?
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Fucking tory scum.
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I take exception to that, I am not a Tory.
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LOL Soz, mate. Kindly allow me this rephrase-ment:
“Fucking tory scum, selling the water utility to their fucking rich bastard friends, so they can run it ahem into the ground.”
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No worries, I knew what you meant.
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Why do I only ever hear about fatbergs in England? Do they not exist in other countries or is the media there not interested in the minutiae of sewer maintenance?
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To be fair, a lot of countries have a little waste basket next to the toilet because you can’t flush toilet paper, though perhaps the UK should do that too.
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Tory monster fatberg.
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Yeah, but I have never heard of them in countries where that isn’t the case either. Plus, toilet paper shouldn’t be the culprit, really. It’s made to not block anything
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I remembered a large one in New York city recently, so I looked for it. This turned up in the search:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/fatbergs-fat-cities-sewers-wet-wipes-science
In New York City, grease causes 71 percent of sewer backups,
Ft. Wayne, Indiana, has spent half a million dollars a year cleaning grease out of sewers.
It does say most bergs occur in the UK and US though.
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