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Toho Water
With the holiday season quickly approaching, Toho Water Authority (Toho) hopes to highlight the effects fats, oils and grease have on our wastewater systems and prevent any pipemares. Fat, oils and grease come from food scraps like pizza, peanut butter, salad dressing and other food products with oil. Food like ice cream and cheese are unsuspecting culprits but can lead to blockages as well.
Wastewater treatment plants are designed to dispose of human waste and toilet paper only. When fats, oils and grease are dumped down the drain in your kitchen sink, they can start to stick together inside of the pipes. Clogged pipes can cause sewer backups inside your house, or an overflow onto neighborhood streets. These types of messes are smelly, dirty, expensive to fix, and bad for our environment.
As we begin to spend more time in the kitchen this holiday season, tell your family to follow these easy steps to protect their sewer pipes and keep your house and neighborhood clean:
CAN IT: Pour leftover oils and grease into an empty container that can be thrown away.
COOL IT: Let grease cool before washing, and scraping out fats, oils and grease from pots and pans.
TRASH IT: Put the container you used to collect grease and any other fatty food scraps in the garbage, not down the drain.
Visit www.tohowater.com/canthegrease to learn more about how to avoid clogged pipes and view the Holiday Pipemares video collection.
