This fatberg is up there with the biggest we’ve ever seen.
https://munchies.vice.com/en_uk/art...have-created-a-monster-fatberg-under-the-city
It's happening all over the world. New York City, London, it's just everywhere. A combination of grease, wipes, more grease and junk in general. Even stores like Wallmart, Costco and Target are being sold for selling "flushable" wipes. They aren't!!
http://www.tmz.com/2017/12/04/flushable-wipes-lawsuit-costco-walmart-target/
Wipes are sticking in toilet trapways and collecting there, and further down the line in pipes, and jamming sewer pumps downline. Big giant fatbergs filling pipeways and blocking waste upstream. Stop it people.
I find it funny that when I pull a poor working toilet and find it clogged with wipes, that nobody in that household uses them. Really? You can put toilet paper in a jar with water, shake it and the paper breaks down. Try that with a wipe, and it stays intact. I work on kitchen sinks clogged with grease, and again, nobody puts grease down those drains either. I always make sure I'm wearing rubber gloves for that. However the guy that snakes the drains, can't wear rubber gloves for fear of the cable catching on the rubber and injuring his hands.
I don't have a power snake for that reason. I'm a little afraid of those things.
I don' really want to get into trouble saying you can't flush them, but my with them, is that you shouldn't.
They should go into a waste basket and then to the trash. Not be put down our joint sewer systems shared by our neighbors. Why should tax dollars be spent dealing with the trash that people put down their toilets that are helping to create fatbergs. Come on people.
Here is a residential blockage I came across. It gets much worse further down line. That's mainly paper products in there.
https://munchies.vice.com/en_uk/art...have-created-a-monster-fatberg-under-the-city
It's happening all over the world. New York City, London, it's just everywhere. A combination of grease, wipes, more grease and junk in general. Even stores like Wallmart, Costco and Target are being sold for selling "flushable" wipes. They aren't!!
http://www.tmz.com/2017/12/04/flushable-wipes-lawsuit-costco-walmart-target/
Wipes are sticking in toilet trapways and collecting there, and further down the line in pipes, and jamming sewer pumps downline. Big giant fatbergs filling pipeways and blocking waste upstream. Stop it people.
I find it funny that when I pull a poor working toilet and find it clogged with wipes, that nobody in that household uses them. Really? You can put toilet paper in a jar with water, shake it and the paper breaks down. Try that with a wipe, and it stays intact. I work on kitchen sinks clogged with grease, and again, nobody puts grease down those drains either. I always make sure I'm wearing rubber gloves for that. However the guy that snakes the drains, can't wear rubber gloves for fear of the cable catching on the rubber and injuring his hands.
I don't have a power snake for that reason. I'm a little afraid of those things.
I don' really want to get into trouble saying you can't flush them, but my with them, is that you shouldn't.
They should go into a waste basket and then to the trash. Not be put down our joint sewer systems shared by our neighbors. Why should tax dollars be spent dealing with the trash that people put down their toilets that are helping to create fatbergs. Come on people.
Here is a residential blockage I came across. It gets much worse further down line. That's mainly paper products in there.
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