Fatbergs: 'flushable' wet wipes are creating an environmental catastrophe – video

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Fatbergs: 'flushable' wet wipes are creating an environmental catastrophe – video
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Sydney Water's Malabar plant collects six dry tonnes of wet wipes every day. The entangled mess of wipes, oil and grease – known as a fatberg – creates a rock-hard mess that blocks pipes and poses big problems for sewerage treatment plants around the world

Fatbergs, caused by an entangled mess of wet wipes 'mortared together' by fats, oils and grease to form rock-hard material, are creating a 'real problem with blockages in the pipes', according to Sydney Water's Peter Hadfield. At a single Sydney Water site at Malabar, six dry tonnes of wipes are collected every day.

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