Trillions Of Fat-Busting Bugs To Be Deployed To Help Fight Sewer Fat

It works by using organically grown bacillus bacteria, which is commonly found in the human gut, to feast on the fat, oils and grease, with the bacteria being mixed with non-chlorinated water before being poured into the sewer.

Ee by gum! Or should we now say 'ee by grease'? I have another idea, we could put bacillus bacteria pills in Xmas crackers or even in our Xmas puddings. I would also like to buy a bottle of these bacillus gut bacteria pills to take daily for the rest of the year, maybe I'm deficient in this gut bacteria, I have just weighed myself and I seem to have put on 2 kilos over the past Xmas week! 

So far this year the company has already removed more than 18,000 blockages from its 54,000km sewer network, with 37% of these being caused by people pouring fat, oil or grease down the sink or flushing baby wipes, sanitary items or nappies down the toilet, at a cost of more than £2 million....Indeed the total amount of fat, oil and grease removed by the company from its sewers so far this year is estimated to be in the region of 2,000 tonnes - equivalent to the weight of 250 empty double decker buses or 400 average sized adult African elephants.

Sounds like this is probably a world-wide problem, equivalent to hundreds of thousands of average sized adult African elephant and not just specific to Yorkshire. Though I did notice about one Indian restaurant or fish and chip shop every 10 meters when I was at uni in Bradford many years ago, probably because we students bought the delicious but very fatty food they sold, nearly every day.

The company is also reminding customers to dispose of fat in an easy and environmentally friendly way by letting it cool and harden, before scraping it into a bin, or mixing it with other ingredients such as crushed unsalted peanuts to create bird feed at a time of year when birds particularly welcome it.

Good idea and a very interesting article Robert.