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Severn Trent’s community partnerships are reducing the number of drain blockages because of fats, oils and greases, says the company, which clears about 30,000 blockages from the waste network every year, and each week pulls two and a half tonnes of wet wipes from sewers – the weight of a Range Rover.
However, the company says its ‘Be A Binner, Not A Blocker’ message has proved a huge success throughout the last year, including over the summer Olympics in France with 14 million litres of FOG successfully cleared from sewers, saving customers unnecessary and potentially costly issues if it caused problems in homes.
The work includes a ground-breaking new partnership with local Gurdwaras across the region, including in Birmingham and the Black Country. The campaign, run in conjunction with Environmental Compliance & Services, Lifecycle Oils, and community group Gurdwara Aid, sees fat-traps installed at the Sikh places of worship to collect the FOG, rather than it going down sinks or drains.
Other Food Service Establishments have also signed up for the FOG-trapping scheme, including Nandos restaurants in the East and West Midlands.
Grant Mitchell, sewer blockage lead at Severn Trent, said: “With the help of our Be A Binner, Not a
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