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    • What are FOG and Sewer Litter?
    • What is this website concerned with?
    • What harm does Sewer Pollution do?
    • How is Sewer Pollution handled?
    • How is Stormwater Pollution handled?
  • Avoiding Problems
    • Avoid blocking your drain
    • Avoid blocking your sewer
    • Avoid polluting the waterways
    • Avoid sewer pollution costs
    • Avoid stopping your septic tank
  • What to do wrong
    • Kitchen Sink Don'ts
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    • Gully Trap Don'ts
    • Stormwater Don'ts
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      • Kitchen Sink Don'ts
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      • Gully Trap Don'ts
      • Stormwater Don'ts
  • What to do right
    • Kitchen Sink Do's
      • Sewer Facts
      • Kitchen Do's
      • Toilet and Shower Do's
    • Toilet and Shower Do's
      • Don't use the Toilet as a Rubbish Bin!
      • What you should do
      • Gully Trap Do's
    • Gully Trap/Stormwater Do's
      • If not down the gully traps and stormwater drains, then what?
      • Septic Tank Do's
    • Septic Tank Do's
      • Kitchen Sink Do's
      • Toilet and Shower Do's
      • Gully Trap/Stormwater Do's
  • FOG & Sewer Litter
    • What is FOG?
    • What is Sewer Litter?
    • Where does FOG go?
    • Where does Sewer Litter go?
    • FOG, Sewer Litter and the Septic Tank
      • What does FOG do in its journey to the sea?
      • Down to the tank
      • When good tanks go bad!
      • Chemical Warfare
      • Choose Avoidance, not Cure
      • Toilet and Shower Don'ts
  • The Fat Trap tub
    • What is a Fat Trap?
    • Why use a Fat Trap?
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• How do you pollute the waterways?
  • Avoid sewer pollution costs
• Things that should not go down the kitchen sink
  • Sewer Facts
  • Kitchen Don'ts
  • Kitchen Sink Do's
  • Toilet and Shower Dont's
• How do you block your sewer?
  • Avoid blocking your drain
• Things that should not go down the toilet and shower
  • Toilet and Shower Do's
  • Gully Trap Don'ts
• How do you block your drain?
  • Avoid sewer pollution costs
  • Avoid stopping your septic tank
• Things that should not go down the gully traps
  • Things that should not go down the gully traps
  • What does it matter if you pollute?
  • How can you pollute the Wastewater system?
  • What's the harm?
  • Gully Trap/Stormwater Do's
  • Stormwater Don'ts
• How does sewer pollution cost you money?
  • Avoid stopping your septic tank
• Things that should not go down the stormwater drains
  • Things that should not go down the gully traps
  • What does it matter if you pollute?
  • How can you pollute the Stormwater system?
  • What's the harm?
  • Gully Trap Do's
  • Gully Trap Don'ts
• Avoid stopping your septic tank
  • Avoid blocking your drain
• What is FOG and how does it pollute the sewer?
  • What is FOG and how does it pollute the sewer?
  • Sources of FOG?
• What does FOG do in its journey to the sea?
  • What does FOG do in its journey to the sea?
  • Down the household pipes
  • Through the sewer under the street
  • Captured at the treatment plant
  • Or off to the sea
  • A sewer in USA showing a build up of fat, oil and grease.
  • Sewer Litter
• What is a Fat Trap?
  • The Fat Trap
  • The Original Fat Trap
  • Green Apple Award
  • How to use
  • Reusable
  • Buy your own Fat Trap
  • The original Fat Trap
  • Green Apple Award presented by Professor David Bellamy
  • Green Apple environment award
    • Tina Pearce
    • Green Champion
    • Top Winner
    • Green Hero
    • Green Apple Award presented
  • Why Use a Fat Trap?
• What is Sewer Litter and how does it pollute the sewer?
  • What does "Sewer Litter" mean?
  • List of "Sewer Litter Items"
  • Where does Sewer Litter go?
• Why use a Fat Trap?
• What does Sewer Litter do in its journey to the sea?
  • Where does Sewer Litter go in its journey to the sea?
  • Down the toilet
  • Through the sewer under the street
  • Captured at the treatment plant
  • Or off to the sea
  • Sewage screen choked with cotton bud sticks
  • Littered beach, UK
• Household Sewer Pollution
  • Household Sewer Pollution
  • The FOG Problem
    • The FOG Problem
    • Sources of FOG
    • Correct disposal of FOG
    • Life-cycle of FOG
  • Life-cycle of FOG
    • The Life-cycle of FOG
    • Down the household pipes
    • Through the sewer under the street
    • Captured at the treatment plant
    • Or off to the sea
    • Tree roots removed from drain.
    • London sewer showing a build up of fat, oil and grease.
    • Items found in sewer blockages / list, worst first
  • The Sewer Litter Problem
    • What does "Sewer Litter" mean?
    • What does "Sewer Litter" consist of?
    • List of "Sewer Litter Items"
    • Correct disposal of "Sewer Litter Items"
    • The Life-cycle of "Sewer Litter"
    • Sewage screen choked with cotton bud sticks
  • Life-cycle of Sewer Litter
    • The Life-cycle of Sewer Litter
    • Down the toilet
    • Through the sewer under the street
    • Captured at the treatment plant
    • Or off to the sea
    • Surfers Against Sewage
    • Marine Conservation Society
    • Screen removing flushed products at Crossness sewage treatment plant, UK
    • Close up of waste at sewage treatment plant.
    • Sewage screen choked with cotton bud sticks
    • More UK Marine Conservation Society excerpts on cotton bud sticks.
      • 'Beachwatch 2006' beach cleanup resulted in a pile of cotton bud sticks
      • Sewage screen choked with cotton bud sticks
    • Littered beach, UK
    • "Return to Offender – Address Known"
• Solutions to the Pollutions
  • Solutions to the Pollutions
  • History Notes
  • You pay!
  • Don't do this!
  • Do this instead!
  • You don't want to meet it again!
  • Kitchen
    • Being "Sink-Wise" in the Kitchen
  • The Fat Trap^TM
    • The Fat Trap
    • The Original Fat Trap
    • Green Apple Award
    • How to use
    • How to Empty for Re-use
    • Prior to Emptying
    • Emptying
    • Buy your own Fat Trap
    • The original Fat Trap
    • Background to the creation of the Fat Trap / cooking accident
    • Green Apple Award presented by Professor David Bellamy
    • Green Apple environment award
  • Bathroom and Toilet
    • Bathroom and toilet
  • Gully Trap
    • Gully Trap and Laundry Tub
    • What does it matter if you pollute?
    • How can you pollute the Wastewater and Stormwater systems?
    • What's the harm?
    • What do you do?
• Householder Q and A
  • Householder Questions and Answers
  • Whydo sewers need "cleaning up"?
  • Howcan you pollute a sewer?
  • Whatis "Household Sewer Pollution"?
  • Is there anything in it for meif I do things differently?
  • Is it worth the effortof doing things differently?
  • Do I have to spend moneyto do things differently?
  • I need educationon how to use a sink and a toilet, do I?
  • Why should Ibe keen to learn about a sewer?
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  • Jargon Busters
    • Jargon Busters
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  • The FAQs on Sewers
    • The FAQs on Sewers
    • What can go down the drains?
    • Why can't everything go down the drains?
    • How can I know what should and should not go into the sewers?
    • A little bit can't make any difference, can it?
    • Why should I change when everyone else is still doing it?
    • Sanitary things have to go down the toilet, don't they?
    • It's always been done that way. What's changed?
    • Am I supposed to pour paint down the drain or not?
    • Can I put any garden rubbish down the gully trap?
    • Can some garden chemicals go down the gully trap?
    • What about waste concrete? It won't harden down there
    • It's 99.9% water in the sewers. How can 0.1% cause a problem?
    • How big a problem is a sewage flood anyway?
    • How big a problem are tree roots?
    • Won't this Fat Trap in the kitchen smell?
    • Won't hot water get rid of it?
    • The product says it is flushable, but you say nothing should be
  • The Mythteries of the Sewers
    • The Mythteries of the Sewers
    • Drains can block up but not sewers
    • Sewers are big enough to walk in
    • To free up a blocked sink just pour boiling water down
    • Disposable items should be put down the toilet
    • Some things must go down the toilet for hygiene reasons
    • If it fits down the toilet it's okay for it to go down
  • Educational Flyers
    • Fat Trap Flyer
    • Bag It For Landfill
    • Keep a Healthy Sewer Near You!
    • How to be Sink-Wise
    • Do you use your toilet as a waste bin?
    • Be Waste-Wise
    • We'll Meet Again
  • Legal Stuff
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Images

• 'Beachwatch 2006' beach cleanup resulted in a pile of cotton bud sticks
• 'Beachwatch 2006' beach cleanup resulted in a pile of cotton bud sticks
• A build up of fat in the sewer. Source: Thames Water, UK.
• A sewer in USA showing a build up of fat, oil and grease.
• A sewer in USA showing a build up of fat, oil and grease.
• A sewer man hole blocked with fat.
• Always use a scraper first to remove thick grease
• Bag It For Landfill
• Bag it for Landfill
• Be Sewer-Wise
• Be Sewer-Wise
• Be Sink-Wise!
• Be Waste-Wise - The Three Waters
• Close up of waste at sewage treatment plant.
• Close up: peas, sweetcorn and rice mixed in with fat - just some of the items that end up at a sewage treatment plant.
• Crossed cheque
• Diagram of sink and sewer
• Do you use your toilet as a waste bin?
• Don't clog your drain with FOG
• Don't leave it in too long!
• Don't put food scraps down the drain
• Don't wash all the grease off under the tap
• Don't wash all the grease off under the tap
• Email address
• Fat Trap
• Fat Trap
• Fat Trap
• Fat Trap
• Fat Trap
• Fat Trap
• Fat Trap Flyer Side 1
• Fat Trap Flyer Side 2
• Fat Trap logo
• Fat Trap logo
• Fat Trap logo, 100px wide
• Fat Trap logo, 210px wide
• Fat Trap with cactus, 100px wide
• Fat Trap with cactus, 200px wide
• Fat Trap, 100px wide
• Fat Trap, 200px wide
• Fat Trap, white background, 180px wide
• Fat Trap, white background, 70px wide
• Flushing offenders: kitchen roll, sanitary products, disposable nappies, disposable wipes
• Frypan with FOG layer
• Good throwaway containers
• Green Apple Award Winner
• Green Apple Award presentation.
• Green Apple Award presented by Professor David Bellamy
• Green Apple Award presented by Professor David Bellamy
• Hot water melted the jar on the right
• House of a polluter
• House of a polluter
• House of a pollution victim
• Keep a bin with a lid handy
• Kitchen Waste Disposal Guide
• Littered beach, UK
• Littered beach, UK.
• Logo for FOG-Catcher Limited
• Logo for Less Mess Limited, UK
• Logo for Surfers against Sewage
• London sewer showing a build up of fat, oil and grease.
• London sewer showing a build up of fat, oil and grease.
• London skyline
• Melted container
• Pile of bad things
• Postal address
• Pour cooled-off liquid
• Pour into your container
• Pour still-warm oil and fat into your Fat Trap
• Pour still-warm oil or fat into your Fat Trap
• Pouring FOG into a Fat Trap
• Pouring into Fat Trap
• Pouring into Fat Trap
• Pouring into Fat Trap, 200px wide
• Pouring into Fat Trap, 200px wide
• Puffin banner & Logo for Marine Conservation Society, UK
• Put all scraps into a bin or composter
• Q & A
• SAS campaign to return litter to its 'owners'
• Screen removing flushed products at Crossness sewage treatment plant, UK
• Screen removing flushed products at Crossness sewage treatment plant, UK.
• Sewage screen choked with cotton bud sticks
• Sewage screen choked with cotton bud sticks
• Sewage screen choked with cotton bug sticks
• Stormwater drain pollution
• The Fat Trap
• The Fat Trap
• The Great Stink of London
• The Three Waters
• The original Fat Trap
• The original Fat Trap
• Toilet Rubbish flyer (108k pdf)
• Toilet or waste bin?
• Tree roots removed from drain.
• Tree roots removed from drain.
• UK Beachwatch 2006 Annual Beach Litter Survey Report
• We'll Meet Again
• We'll meet again ...
• Wipe surfaces first before washing them

PDFs

• "Sinkwise" flyer (140k pdf)
• "Toilet Bin" flyer (205k pdf)
• Toilet Rubbish flyer (98k pdf)
• "Waste-Wise" flyer (81k pdf)
• Safe Disposal of Household Waste flyer (54k pdf)
• "Waste Wise" flyer (81k pdf)
• Keep a Healthy Sewer Near You (88k pdf)
• Keep a Healthy Sewer Near You! (88k pdf)
• Less Mess extract from Green book, Volume 12 / extracted here
• "The Fat Trap" flyer (106k pdf)
• We'll Meet Again (174k pdf)
• "Healthy Sewer" flyer (88k pdf)
• "We'll Meet Again" flyer (174k pdf)
• "Waste-wise" flyer (81k pdf)
• "The Fat Trap^TM" flyer (106k pdf)
• The Fat Trap flyer (121k pdf) / black and white version (121k pdf)
• "Bag It For Landfill" flyer (120k pdf)
• "Keep a Healthy Sewer Near You!" flyer (88k pdf)
• "How to be Sink-Wise" flyer (140k pdf)
• "Do you use your toilet as a waste bin?" flyer (205k pdf)
• "Be Waste-Wise" flyer (81k pdf)

External Links

• Bolognese recipe / sample recipe
• How and why?
• Enviropaints
• Green Organisation website
• The Green Book is a unique international work of reference
• Emigrate to New Zealand
• "Definitions of Words or Terms"
• Less Mess Limited
• Less Mess Limited / website
• Customer Inquiry Form
• NZPost Postcode Finder
• Needle Exchange Programme
• Needle Exchange Programme
• Feeding the Birds (NZ)
• "North Devon Gazette" 29 November 2006:
• "Paint-wise"
• Only a bit left?
• Paint-wise
• Resene
• Resene
• South West Water
• "Return to Offender - Address Known"
• Surfers Against Sewage
• Surfers Against Sewage
• Thames Water, UK: 'Bin it - don't block it' campaign's photo gallery
• "Adopt-A-Beach" campaign
• Adopt-A-Beach
• Cotton Bud Sticks (CBS)
• Marine Conservation Society
• Marine Conservation Society
• UK Marine Conservation Society
• UK Marine Conservation Society
• UK Marine Conservation Society
• UK Marine Conservation Society (Adopt-A-Beach) webpage on "cotton bud sticks" beach litter
• [PDF] Beachwatch 2006
• [PDF] Beachwatch 2006: The Annual MCS UK Beach Litter Survey Report, page 8
• www.ces.ncsu.edu - Problems with Tree Roots
• [PDF] www.treeworld.info (259kb) / www.treeworld.info pdf "Tree Roots, A Growing Problem" (259kb)