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"Total monster" fatberg in London

GlennB

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We had a mini fatberg down the sewer in our old house, but ...

"A fatberg weighing the same as 11 double decker buses and stretching the length of two football pitches is blocking a section of London’s ageing sewage network.

The congealed mass of fat, wet wipes and nappies is one of the biggest ever found and would have risked raw sewage flooding on to the streets in Whitechapel, east London, had it not been discovered during a routine inspection earlier this month." linky with video (with rats - fat ones)

So there we have it. Dispose of your animal fat residues, diapers etc responsibly folks, or you might get a fatberg down your way too.
 
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Mr Fatberg is not a monster. He is merely misunderstood by the public which, in ignorance, mischaracterizes Mr Fatberg's close ties to the monster community.
 
Trademark lawsuit coming?

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Can fatbergs be transformed into useful biodiesel? Like the used cooking oil that is collected for this purpose from restaurants.
 
I think filtering out the crud that forms a good part of a fatberg might cause issues with that.
 
Tolls said:
I think filtering out the crud that forms a good part of a fatberg might cause issues with that.
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I just found this in the Guardian 10 August 2015.
Other cities, however, are finding more legitimate uses for FOGs. [fats, oils, grease in clogged sewers] In San Francisco and Atlanta, they’re converted into biodiesel fuel, which is used to power school buses, city vehicles and machinery.​
 
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Argumemnon said:
...nappies...?

What do people flush down the toilet in London? We throw that stuff in the trash.
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I can't picture any nappy/diaper being flushable. We used fabric reusables for our first kid and might have flushed the disposable nappy-liners down the bog, but that's about it.

Our last house in England had a Victorian waste pipe with a poor angle for drainage from an upstairs WC. Ladies in the house were requested not to flush 'items of feminine hygiene' down that bog, but whenever I had to rod that pipe clear, what did I find ... ?
 
GlennB said:
I can't picture any nappy/diaper being flushable. We used fabric reusables for our first kid and might have flushed the disposable nappy-liners down the bog, but that's about it.

Our last house in England had a Victorian waste pipe with a poor angle for drainage from an upstairs WC. Ladies in the house were requested not to flush 'items of feminine hygiene' down that bog, but whenever I had to rod that pipe clear, what did I find ... ?
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And they do cause problems. Like the so called flushable "washlets".
 
Once, the toilet in the appartment above mine leaked and I got some water in the bathroom (thankfully, it streaked directly in my own toilet). When the repairmen came to see me to explain the issue, they said they had found a mayonaise jar cap blocking the pipes.

People will flush anything down the toilet.

Morons.
 
You learn something new every day!
There's definitely a bit of an irrational ewwww about it, though.
 
Blimey:
"...90 million litres of biofuel a year."
And that's from one treatment plant in Birmingham.

That's a lot of fat(berg).
 
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