Fatberg

• Metro Vancouver wants feds to define that ‘flushable’ wipes aren’t really flushable

  "They don't break down like toilet paper and they can cause massive clogs in pipes within homes as well as in our sewers and at our pump stations," Dana Zheng said.

  Health

  Dec 3, 2024
  
• Huge ‘fatbergs’ removed from Richmond, B.C. sewers

  Metro Vancouver is reminding residents that if they have any grease or oil that needs to be disposed of to put it in their green bin and not down the sink.

  Environment

  Oct 25, 2024
  
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• Massive ‘fatberg’ the size of ‘6 double-decker buses’ clogging sewer in U.K. town

  A giant “fatberg,” a massive glob of hardened grease, oil and wet-wipes that’s more than “six double-decker buses” in size is clogging a sewer in the British town of Sidmouth.

  Trending

  Jan 8, 2019
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• Grease and thank you: Thanksgiving chefs urged to send kitchen grease to the green bin

  Grease put down kitchen drains hardens into "fatbergs" which cost the region about $2 million to clean up each year.

  Oct 7, 2017
• This ‘fatberg’ is clogging London’s sewer system, British officials say

  Officials said it is likely to take three weeks to dissolve the outsize fatberg.

  World

  Sep 12, 2017
• Utility workers pull 750-kg ‘fatberg’ from Australian sewer

  Utility workers in Australia pulled a “fatberg” – a massive wad of wet wipes, sewage, fat and oil – weighing over one tonne from a sewer system in Newcastle last Wednesday.

  Environment

  Feb 26, 2016
• ‘Fatbergs’ pose pipe problems for Halifax Water crews

  Last week a downtown Halifax manhole cover was lifted skyward by a dense lump of floating fat, oil and grease. It was a fatberg.

  Nov 19, 2014