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remember the 'fatburg' that clogged sewers in NYC made of wet asswipes? England has a 2 acre island that is altering the Thames River -- (link)

Posted by zeitgeist Jul 2 '22, 22:59

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https://www.businessinsider.nl/a-huge-mass-of-used-wet-wipes-has-formed-an-island-that-has-changed-the-course-of-englands-second-longest-river-mp-says/ (www.businessinsider.nl)

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They're not going to get people to stop using them so they either need to ban them from being sold or figure out a way to filter them out - Krusty Jul 3, 05:44
Sure, don't use wet wipes. But hey how about filtering solids from the water before dumping it into a river? -- nm - Max Jul 2, 23:13 1
- filters are the first, and fastest to get clogged as that stuff totally coats any screens, TP falls apart, poly plastic doesn't -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 3, 01:44
I'm not sure if the metric to imperial density conversion math is correct there... but maybe I'm thinking of it wrong. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 2, 23:10 4
- And how are they finishing up in the Thames? Is sewage dumped into the river without treatment? -- nm - Meg Jul 2, 23:13 3
  - Pretty much, our rivers are disgusting. -- nm - LMS Jul 3, 03:39 2
    - That's really surprising. I would have figured that by this point they'd have a good plant to process the waste and a better way to get rid of it than - Krusty Jul 3, 05:46 1
      - The water companies were privatised years ago, they now flush raw sewage into the rivers and sea thousands of times a year. - LMS Jul 3, 07:18

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