01 Oct Southend food businesses help to ensure fatbergs are not on the menu
Food serving businesses in Southend have been helping to ensure they don’t make a fatberg the special of the day!
Owners, managers and kitchen staff are now being encouraged to join free one hour training seminars on kitchen management to ensure fats, oils and grease from their premises don’t get into the town pipes.
October 12 and 13Park Inn by Radisson Palace, Southend-on-Sea
Link below to sign up to free training seminars.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-1-hour-training-for-food-serving-businesses-keeping-your-pipes-clear-tickets-181863337137
For starters, blocked pipes can burst causing issues for the environment. Restaurants, takeaways, pubs and cafes have been doing their bit to help.
The Flush to Treatment project has proved to be the ‘Dish of the Day’ cleaning and clearing pipes under the ground. 460 tonnes of waste from the pipes, equivalent to four blue whales, has been cleared and taken away. Since the work finished there have been no blockages in the area!
Fats, oils and grease, can mix with wipes and sanitary waste, which should be binned and not flushed, to add to the ingredients blocking the pipes. This is the most common cause of blockages and pollution incidents in watercourses, rivers and the sea.
Toby Durrant, Managing Director of HALO Oils, said: “Fats, oils and grease should be instead prevented from entering the sewer network, collected and converted into bio-fuel, protecting both the environment and helping the circular economy.
“The food serving businesses in Southend are to be applauded for helping to make a real difference to the environment. Anglian Water has put new monitors, eyes under the ground, in the pipes which shows the extent to which the businesses and local people are helping and taking on board the messages and changing behaviours as a result.”
Essex Chambers of Commerce, Southend Borough Council, Southend Association of Voluntary Services, Turning Tides Charity, Brave Arts, Project Southchurch and A BetterSpace Charity have all been working with Anglian Water to protect the environment from pollution caused by avoidable blocked pipes.
