Yuck! Walls of fat removed from London Sewers

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Permalink Reply by Maddy on July 13, 2010 at 16:50

I've heard that sewage workers never eat sweetcorn, as so much of turns up in the sewers undigested. I felt like this for several years after regularly finding it in my son's nappy.

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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on July 13, 2010 at 20:53

"We couldn't even access the sewer as it was blocked by a four-foot wall of solid fat."

High or deep? Eugh!

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Permalink Reply by Maddy on July 13, 2010 at 21:04

I wonder if they can turn it into fuel, like they do with used chip fat...

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Permalink Reply by Liz on August 13, 2010 at 16:55

Not that I'm obsessed with this or anything, but here are more pictures of this work and an answer to Maddy's question: [Thames Water] is encouraging London restaurants to recycle their cooking fat instead of pouring it down the drain. "They have their fat collected and it gets turned into biofuel," ...

Once in the sewer, though, the fat can't be turned into fuel, as it becomes tainted by other waste and trash..."

By the way Haringey take old cooking oil at the Refuse and Recycle centres

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