• Waterdoc@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    Sadly this is pretty common. Here are some nasty pictures from a recent one in greater Vancouver.

  • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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    Flushable wipes are not flushable! These companies should pay to remove them, it was completely false advertising

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        Decomposition is irrelevant. Nothing you flush decomposes by the time it gets to treatment (or the ocean / fuck the environment amirite). The main problem with these wipes is they don’t even break apart. Their little sabotage trojan horses that corporations injected into out sanitization systems, and we continue to let them falsely advertise, instead of fining them for ALL the damages they cause.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    Here’s how you fix this. We’re going to dig up the streets and replace the sewers. The new sewers will be all steel. There’s going to be flame throwers, and spiders inside.

    Then, whenever one of these fatbergs exists, we’ll just blast the flame throwers, and it’ll burn it to nothing.

    Problem solved.

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      6 days ago

      Along with all of the oxygen, with the sewer gasses probably exploding and sending other manhole covers sky high.

      Also sewers are made of concrete, you can already play with fire in them.