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.
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..."