Flushable wipe fatbergs clogging up New York's sewers
- 5 years ago
NEW YORK — New York may be number one in a lot of areas, but it's their Number Twos that are now getting them into trouble.
According to the New York Post, the Big Apple has a pretty stinky fatberg problem clogging up its sewers because New Yorkers keep flushing things down the can they shouldn't be.
According to the Post, the city Department of Environmental Protection blew $19 million last year removing fatbergs from the city's underbelly, a cost that has doubled in the past decade.
The DEP had to wipe up 2,100 fatbergs throughout the city's sewer system in 2018.
And if you spread the cheeks a bit, it looks like flushable wipes are the main culprits, accounting for 90 percent of the solids captured at sorting screens at 14 treatment plants around the city.
According to the paper, the DEP sent more than 53,000 tons of wet wipes and other junk to landfills. Giant industrial-sized dumpsters are jammed with wipes day after day, and then trucked away numerous times a week.
One reason for the log jam is that most wipes marketed as "flushable" don't actually disintegrate and thus the costly back ups.
There's nothing wrong with a squeaky clean backside, just remember to throw it in the trash. You'd be doing a real SOLID for your local sewage treatment plant worker.
According to the New York Post, the Big Apple has a pretty stinky fatberg problem clogging up its sewers because New Yorkers keep flushing things down the can they shouldn't be.
According to the Post, the city Department of Environmental Protection blew $19 million last year removing fatbergs from the city's underbelly, a cost that has doubled in the past decade.
The DEP had to wipe up 2,100 fatbergs throughout the city's sewer system in 2018.
And if you spread the cheeks a bit, it looks like flushable wipes are the main culprits, accounting for 90 percent of the solids captured at sorting screens at 14 treatment plants around the city.
According to the paper, the DEP sent more than 53,000 tons of wet wipes and other junk to landfills. Giant industrial-sized dumpsters are jammed with wipes day after day, and then trucked away numerous times a week.
One reason for the log jam is that most wipes marketed as "flushable" don't actually disintegrate and thus the costly back ups.
There's nothing wrong with a squeaky clean backside, just remember to throw it in the trash. You'd be doing a real SOLID for your local sewage treatment plant worker.