Fatberg, the Glossary
A fatberg is a rock-like mass of waste matter in a sewer system formed by the combination of flushed non-biodegradable solids (such as wet wipes) with fat, oil, and grease (FOG) deposits.[1]
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68 relations: Advertising Standards Authority (United Kingdom), Australia, Baltimore, BBC News, Biodegradation, Biodiesel, Biogas, Birmingham, Boeing 747, Business Insider, Cadogan Place, Calcium, Canary Wharf, Cardiff, Chelsea, London, Compound (linguistics), Condom, Connacht Tribune, Cotton swab, COVID-19 pandemic, Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water, Eleebana, New South Wales, Fluid dynamics, Food loss and waste, Frost heaving, Garbage disposal unit, Gisborne District Council, Gisborne, New Zealand, Grease trap, HM Prison Manchester, Hodge Hill, Iceberg, Ireland, Jones Falls, Kingston upon Thames, Laminar flow, Lexico, Lipid, London, Macomb County, Michigan, Marine Conservation Society, Melbourne, Menstrual pad, Michigan Science Center, Museum of London, New Zealand, Newcastle, New South Wales, Sanitary sewer, Sanitary sewer overflow, Saponification, ... Expand index (18 more) »
- Sewerage infrastructure
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is the self-regulatory organisation of the advertising industry in the United Kingdom.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Baltimore
Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland.
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Biodegradation
Biodegradation is the breakdown of organic matter by microorganisms, such as bacteria and fungi.
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Biodiesel
Biodiesel is a renewable biofuel, a form of diesel fuel, derived from biological sources like vegetable oils, animal fats, or recycled greases, and consisting of long-chain fatty acid esters.
Biogas
Biogas is a gaseous renewable energy source produced from raw materials such as agricultural waste, manure, municipal waste, plant material, sewage, green waste, wastewater, and food waste.
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.
Boeing 747
The Boeing 747 is a long-range wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States between 1968 and 2023.
Business Insider
Business Insider (stylized in all caps, shortened to BI, known from 2021 to 2023 as Insider) is a New York City–based multinational financial and business news website founded in 2007.
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Cadogan Place
Cadogan Place is a street in Belgravia, London.
Calcium
Calcium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ca and atomic number 20.
Canary Wharf
Canary Wharf is an area of London, England, located near the Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Cardiff
Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital and largest city of Wales.
Chelsea, London
Chelsea is an affluent area in West London, England, due south-west of Charing Cross by approximately 2.5 miles.
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Compound (linguistics)
In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word or sign) that consists of more than one stem.
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Condom
A condom is a sheath-shaped barrier device used during sexual intercourse to reduce the probability of pregnancy or a sexually transmitted infection (STI).
Connacht Tribune
The Connacht Tribune (An Curadh Connachtach) is a newspaper circulating chiefly in County Galway, Ireland.
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Cotton swab
Cotton swabs (American English) or cotton buds (British English) are wads of cotton wrapped around a short rod made of wood, rolled paper, or plastic.
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.
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Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water
Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water is a not-for-profit company which supplies drinking water and wastewater services to most of Wales and parts of western England that border Wales.
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Eleebana, New South Wales
Eleebana is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia, from Newcastle's central business district along the eastern shoreline of Lake Macquarie.
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Fluid dynamics
In physics, physical chemistry and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids—liquids and gases.
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Food loss and waste
Food loss and waste is food that is not eaten.
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Frost heaving
Frost heaving (or a frost heave) is an upwards swelling of soil during freezing conditions caused by an increasing presence of ice as it grows towards the surface, upwards from the depth in the soil where freezing temperatures have penetrated into the soil (the freezing front or freezing boundary).
Garbage disposal unit
A garbage disposal unit (also known as a waste disposal unit, food waste disposer (FWD), in-sink macerator, garbage disposer, or garburator) is a device, usually electrically powered, installed under a kitchen sink between the sink's drain and the trap.
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Gisborne District Council
Gisborne District Council (Te Kaunihera o Te Tairāwhiti) is the unitary authority for the Gisborne District of New Zealand.
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Gisborne, New Zealand
Gisborne is a city in northeastern New Zealand and the largest settlement in the Gisborne District (or Gisborne Region).
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Grease trap
A grease trap (also known as grease interceptor, grease recovery device, grease capsule and grease converter) is a plumbing device (a type of trap) designed to intercept most greases and solids before they enter a wastewater disposal system. Fatberg and grease trap are Sewerage infrastructure.
HM Prison Manchester
HM Prison Manchester is a Category A and B men's prison in Manchester, England, operated by His Majesty's Prison Service.
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Hodge Hill
Hodge Hill is an area 4 miles east of Birmingham City Centre, England.
Iceberg
An iceberg is a piece of freshwater ice more than long that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and is floating freely in open water.
Ireland
Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.
Jones Falls
The Jones Falls is a U.S. Geological Survey.
Kingston upon Thames
Kingston upon Thames, colloquially known as Kingston, is a town in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, south-west London, England.
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Laminar flow
Laminar flow is the property of fluid particles in fluid dynamics to follow smooth paths in layers, with each layer moving smoothly past the adjacent layers with little or no mixing.
Lexico
Lexico was a dictionary website that provided a collection of English and Spanish dictionaries produced by Oxford University Press (OUP), the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
Lipid
Lipids are a broad group of organic compounds which include fats, waxes, sterols, fat-soluble vitamins (such as vitamins A, D, E and K), monoglycerides, diglycerides, phospholipids, and others.
London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Macomb County, Michigan
Macomb County is a county located in the eastern portion of the U.S. state of Michigan, bordering Lake St.
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Marine Conservation Society
The Marine Conservation Society is a UK-based charitable organisation working with businesses, governments and communities to clean and protect oceans.
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Melbourne
Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.
Menstrual pad
A menstrual pad, or simply a pad, (also known as a sanitary pad, sanitary towel, sanitary napkin or feminine napkin) is an absorbent item worn in the underwear when menstruating, bleeding after giving birth, recovering from gynecologic surgery, experiencing a miscarriage or abortion, or in any other situation where it is necessary to absorb a flow of blood from the vagina.
Michigan Science Center
The Michigan Science Center (MiSci) is a Smithsonian-affiliate science museum in Detroit, Michigan.
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Museum of London
The London Museum (formerly known as the Museum of London) is a museum in London, covering the history of the city from prehistoric to modern times, with a particular focus on social history.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
Newcastle, New South Wales
Newcastle, also commonly referred to as Greater Newcastle (Mulubinba) is a regional metropolitan area and the second-most-populous district of New South Wales, Australia.
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Sanitary sewer
A sanitary sewer is an underground pipe or tunnel system for transporting sewage from houses and commercial buildings (but not stormwater) to a sewage treatment plant or disposal. Fatberg and sanitary sewer are Sewerage infrastructure.
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Sanitary sewer overflow
Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) is a condition in which untreated sewage is discharged from a sanitary sewer into the environment prior to reaching sewage treatment facilities. Fatberg and sanitary sewer overflow are Sewerage.
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Saponification
Saponification is a process of cleaving esters into carboxylate salts and alcohols by the action of aqueous alkali.
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Severn Trent
Severn Trent plc is a water company based in Coventry, England.
Shepherd's Bush
Shepherd's Bush is a suburb of West London, England, within the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham west of Charing Cross, and identified as a major metropolitan centre in the London Plan.
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Shortages related to the COVID-19 pandemic are pandemic-related disruptions to goods production and distribution, insufficient inventories, and disruptions to workplaces caused by infections and public policy.
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Sidmouth
Sidmouth is a town on the English Channel in Devon, South West England, southeast of Exeter.
South Bank
The South Bank is an entertainment and commercial district in central London, England on the south bank of the River Thames opposite the City of Westminster.
South West Water
South West Water is a British private utility company responsible for the water supply and waste water treatment services throughout Devon and Cornwall and in small areas of Dorset and Somerset.
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Surfers Against Sewage
Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) is a marine conservation charity working with communities to protect oceans, waves, beaches and marine life.
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Thames Water
Thames Water Utilities Ltd, known as Thames Water, is a British private utility company responsible for the water supply and waste water treatment in most of Greater London, Luton, the Thames Valley, Surrey, Gloucestershire, north Wiltshire, far west Kent, and some other parts of England; like other water companies, it has a monopoly in the regions it serves.
The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Turbulence
In fluid dynamics, turbulence or turbulent flow is fluid motion characterized by chaotic changes in pressure and flow velocity.
Victorian era
In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission
The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC Water) is a bi-county political subdivision of the State of Maryland that provides safe drinking water and wastewater treatment for Montgomery and Prince George's Counties in Maryland except for a few cities in both counties that continue to operate their own water facilities.
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Welshpool
Welshpool (Y Trallwng) is a market town and community in Powys, Wales, historically in the county of Montgomeryshire.
Wet wipe
A wet wipe, also known as a wet towel, wet one, moist towelette, disposable wipe, disinfecting wipe, or a baby wipe (in specific circumstances) is a small to medium-sized moistened piece of plastic or cloth that either comes folded and individually wrapped for convenience or, in the case of dispensers, as a large roll with individual wipes that can be torn off.
Whitechapel
Whitechapel is an area in London, England, and is located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Yahoo!
Yahoo! (styled yahoo! in its logo) is an American web services provider.
See also
Sewerage infrastructure
- Cloaca (Capri)
- Combined sewer
- Constructed wetland
- Dump station
- Effluent sewer
- Esholt Sewage Works Railway
- Extended aeration
- Facultative lagoon
- Fatberg
- Gravity sewer
- Grease trap
- Green bridge (filtration system)
- Imhoff tank
- James Newlands
- Mound system
- Onsite sewage facility
- Outfall
- Paris sewers
- Petersham Hole
- Pressure sewer
- Providence, Rhode Island Combined Sewer Overflow Abatement Program
- Sanitary sewer
- Secondary treatment
- Septic drain field
- Septic tank
- Sewage farm
- Sewage pumping
- Sewage treatment
- Sewage treatment plants
- Sewer dosing unit
- The Hidden City (film)
- Toilets
- Trench drain
- Vacuum sewer
- Vacuum truck
- Waste stabilization pond
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatberg
Also known as Fatbergs, Fatburger (drain obstruction), Fatburger (sewer).
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