Wet wipes are responsible for 93% of sewer blocks, costing £millions - many people don't realise that they contain plastic amongst other things. A giant Fatberg, weighing the same as 11 double decker buses blocked pipes in London, containing wet wipes.
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"Wet wipes are responsible for 93% of sewer blocks, costing £millions - many people don't realise that they contain plastic amongst other things. A giant Fatberg, weighing the same as 11 double decker buses blocked pipes in London, containing wet wipes.
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My friends garden got flooded because wipes in the sewage pipes. It was like a backdraft and eventually the pressure went and the whole streets sewage was in her garden. Was both disgusting and hilarious to see loads of turds floating on the grass lol x |
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The fat berg wasn't just down to wetwipes, it was mainly due to the animal and cooking fats that are poured into the waste system of London.
Still you have to take your hats off to those victorian engineers that built Londons sewer systems so that they could accommodate 15tonnes blob of congealed fat, waste food, excrement and anything else that managed to find its way into the sewers, and still manage to work and not fill the streets of Whitechapel with shit... |
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Wet wipes and three ply loo roll too and people that don't flush the toilet leaving large quantities of loo paper to be flushed down.
And...some people still throw nappies down the loo, adult ones as well as baby ones, why do people do that?!
It really is a problem and the sewers are designed for just waste. Not just over flow but odours also.
Also, washing powder can build up and cause issues in the sewer.
FOG (fats,oils and grease), dispose of them separately as that causes issues and build up of fat in sewers which is also an on going problem. Food establishments, sometimes can be a pain in the bum too.
I can talk talk sewers all day, lol |
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