Could this be the king of the fatbergs?
A fatberg weighing 40 tons — or more than 80,000 pounds — has been extricated from the sewers of London. A team of engineers from the Thames Water utility company took out the filthy mass — an accumulation of improperly disposed-of materials 🌊♔like cooking fat and wipes, which clog sewers — by hand. The burly blockage was the size of a double-decker bus, .
The mass had been discovered in a Greenwich sewer earlier this year. Engineers needed three weeks to remove it, and have been going to area eateries in the aftermath to make sure local businesses are well-versed on how fatbergs get made, in orde🌊r to avoid another obese obstruction.
“This was a massive and disgusting blockage that took a great deal of effort and teamwork to clear and get the sewer working well again,” says Matt Rimmer, head of waste networks for Thames Water.
“I’m happy that our team was able to get down and work hard to quickly clear the fatberg before it could cause problems for our customers and the environment,” he tells the Guardian. “We’d urge everyone to help fight the fatberg by only flushing the 3Ps — pee, poo and paper — as well as disposing of fat and oils in the bin, not the sink.”
Previously massive fatbergs have included one larger than a jumbo jet and one that clocked in at 15 tons.
