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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #25 Return of the Fatbergs
Description: Underneath cities all over the UK subterranean mountains of
calcified fat are gathering in our sewers as fat, oil and grease stick to baby
wipes and harden to form a blubbery bacterial blockage. Removing them is
dangerous, manual work, putting people and the infrastructure itself at risk.
In this episode we venture to the site of Europe’s biggest fatberg in
Blackfriars, London with Lanes Group special projects manager Andy Howard, who
explains that removing a fatberg is not necessarily the end of the story.
Unless people change their habits, fatbergs will come back. At Whitechapel, in
east London th...