• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    3 hours 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.

  • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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    5 hours 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.

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