• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    Flushable wipes are not flushable! These companies should pay to remove them, it was completely false advertising

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        Decomposition is irrelevant. Nothing you flush decomposes by the time it gets to treatment (or the ocean / fuck the environment amirite). The main problem with these wipes is they don’t even break apart. Their little sabotage trojan horses that corporations injected into out sanitization systems, and we continue to let them falsely advertise, instead of fining them for ALL the damages they cause.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    Here’s how you fix this. We’re going to dig up the streets and replace the sewers. The new sewers will be all steel. There’s going to be flame throwers, and spiders inside.

    Then, whenever one of these fatbergs exists, we’ll just blast the flame throwers, and it’ll burn it to nothing.

    Problem solved.

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      24 days ago

      Along with all of the oxygen, with the sewer gasses probably exploding and sending other manhole covers sky high.

      Also sewers are made of concrete, you can already play with fire in them.

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    25 days ago

    How are fats, oils, and grease getting into the sewer system, though? Are there enough of those materials left in our poop to conglomerate like that? Or are those from industrial users on the sewer system?

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      25 days ago

      Lots of restaurants and cafes pouring their waste cooking oil down the sink instead of paying a collection service.

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        24 days ago

        That seems like a great way to plug your own drains.

        Also, I was under the impression that restaurants could sell their frying oil for recycling? This is a weakly held impression to be sure but I want to remember reading something about it.

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        Man, I’m an idiot. I dunno why I forgot for a moment that other drains exist lol. That makes sense, thanks!

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          Maybe you have a drain phobia? Mr. Rogers had a song one day on his show called “you can never go down the drain” which was supposed to stop kids who were scared of that happening… but until he sang that song, the concept of me going down a drain was not something I had considered, so I was terrified of it for years and had to jump out of the bath the minute my mom pulled the plug.

          On the other hand, you’re probably not as weird as I am, so you probably just forgot.

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    24 days ago

    Sadly this is pretty common. Here are some nasty pictures from a recent one in greater Vancouver.