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Commercial Garbage Disposals Banned in New York City Food Service Establishments A thriving business community is vital to New York City and its neighborhoods. A healthy economy benefits every New Yorker. But when businesses discharge grease into the sewers, it can cause sanitary sewer overflows and interfere with the City’s sewage treatment operations. It also […]

No Commercial Garbage Disposals Allowed in Los Angeles Restaurants The Bureau of Sanitation in Los Angeles CA is responsible for maintaining the City’s sewer system and clearing blockages that can often result in the overflow of sewage into the environment. It has been found that many of these blockages are caused by fats, oil and

San Francisco Fights FOG From Grease Traps FOG can be a big problem in San Francisco — not the misty kind that famously blankets the City by the Bay, but sewer-clogging fats, oils, and grease. FOG is a sticky problem for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), largely because of the many restaurants for

Arizona Town Tackles Odors Stemming From Restaurant Grease Traps Hovering over an open manhole, Bill Hurd took a long metal pole and poked at the gray liquid in a grease interceptor below. On a recent Tuesday morning, Hurd was working with the executive chef at Eddie V’s Edgewater Grill to conduct the restaurant’s annual “Fats,

Food Waste in the 21st Century We think we throw it “away” – but there is no away to throw it to. Well, actually we throw it IN, mostly into municipal landfills. In 2010, the EPA estimated that Americans generated about 250 million tons of trash and recycled and composted over 85 million tons of this material,