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| Fi wrote on 30-06-2017 10:14 AM
I've got a bit obsessed with Atlas Obscura of late.
One of today's offerings was the Belfast Fatberg
The term “fatberg”—a portmanteau of “fat” and “iceberg”—is used by authorities to describe the big globs of refuse that build up inside sewers when people flush things they shouldn’t. They have the potential to get very big and very gross.
This particular fatberg has made its home in a sewer beneath Dublin Road, and had nearly broken free onto the street by the time it was discovered. Crews from Northern Ireland Water have worked to remove it for six straight Sundays, and have already pried out “a couple of hundred tonnes” of grease, the outlet says.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCPRbf40m0I&feature=youtu.be
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Fatbergs may be big and gross, but one company has found an econmic way of turning them into biodiesel which is 80% cleaner than diesel:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0572yfx
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