How Your Cafeteria Grease Trap Design Impacts Safety and Functionality Have you heard of the Whitechapel Monster? This enormous grease blockage of the London sewers gave rise to the term “fatberg” in the early part of 2015. Described as longer than Tower Bridge and the weight of 11 double-decker buses, the stinking, greasy mess required […]
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Food Scrap Collector Generates Renewable Energy In New Jersey Did you know that food waste can be turned into renewable energy? The power generated by the methane gas captured from micro-organisms at the Joint Meeting of Union and Essex Counties wastewater treatment plant in New Jersey, part of the “food” the bugs digest is collected
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City Implementing Grease Trap Inspections For Delaware Restaurants A recent study showed extremely high levels of biocontaminants in Rehoboth Delaware’s stormwater system in the hours immediately following heavy rains. At the time, city officials questioned the source of the bacteria, because the state’s ocean monitoring system wasn’t showing those same high levels of bacteria in
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Keeping Your Commercial Kitchen Clean With Regular Grease Trap Cleaning More than 54 billion meals are served at 844,000 commercial kitchens in the United States each year. On average, over 40% of adults eat at a restaurant each day. With such a high percentage of Americans eating out, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration places
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New Grease Trap Cleaning Rules Ensure Minnesota Restaurants Keep Grease Out Of Sewers Grease washed from restaurant frying pans and dirty dishes is creating a fatty mess in Minnesota sewers and public works crews hope new rules will unclog the subterranean arteries. Cities across the state have been getting more aggressive in recent years about
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Fatberg Removed From Michigan Sewer After Improper Grease Trap Cleaning With the stink of congealed grease, oil and fat serving as a backdrop, Macomb County Public Works officials remind everyone of the consequences of pouring everything down the drain. One day after revealing the massive fatberg found in Lakeshore Interceptor drain, Macomb County Public Works Commissioner
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Avoid Grease Trap Problems in Your Restaurant When someone walks in the front door of your restaurant, the smells are supposed to make them hungry. But if you’ve got grease trap issues, those smells could be costing you customers. Here are the top things to avoid so you won’t have trouble with the grease trap
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Florida Restaurant Grease Trap Spill Covers City Streets About 100 gallons of grease from a Florida restaurant spilled into the streets according to city officials and a state report. The grease flowed from the grease trap and spilled into a parking lot behind the building. “This type of spill rarely happens,” said Nora Emmanuel, city
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Iowa Restaurants Offered Rebates For Grease Trap Sizing and Installation The City of Clinton, Iowa is implementing a proactive approach to reduce grease build-up at their water treatment plant. As part of their 2018 budget, a part-time fats, oils and grease inspector has been deployed to check on food establishments regarding the maintenance of grease
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Grease Trap Issues Cause Popular California Restaurant to Close A California restaurant closed its downtown location due to a dispute over the cause of foul odors to the dismay of the owner. A neighboring business in the building noticed a strong sewage smell and warned the restaurant. The restaurant owner didn’t notice anything unusual and did not
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