Be A Guardian

Think, chicken fat, but 100 times worse! This evil culprit likes to hide in your food remnants so he can be poured down your drain and into your pipes. Once in the pipe and sewer, he bonds with bacteria and helps create massive fatbergs! His favorite camouflage is leftover butter, salad dressing and cheeses that are often rinsed off dishes or left on plates put into the dishwasher!

Sneaky, smarmy and smart! Oil can instantly bond with whatever it comes in contact with – remember your favorite cotton shirt? This guy ruined it! Since oil and water don’t mix, undestroyed oil molecules that enter your drain bond with Fat to create fatbergs! Vegetable, avocado, coconut, sesame and olive oils are common disguises this villain uses to enter our sewer system!

We’re not knocking bacon or beef, but they create this monster in spades! This shifty perpetrator often starts as a liquid but quickly turns into a solid once cooled. Unlike his cousin Oil, grease likes to carry chunks of meat and fat with him into your drain! Grease loves to stick around! He likes to coat to the insides of pipes and sewer walls creating growing layers that cause fluid disruption over time resulting in clogs and sewage backups.

He’s in it for the long game; targeting our environment and public health. Most wastewater treatment plants are not equipped to remove pharmaceuticals from wastewater, so after he’s flushed or poured down the drain, his purpose in the pipes is to pollute our waters, impacting aquatic species and contaminating our food and water supplies. Scientists have found his relatives (medicines) in surface, ground and marine waters as well as soils and sediments.

Lies! Wipe is up to no good. She claims to be innocent and “flushable,” when in reality, she’s a pipe’s worst nightmare! Build-up from her woeful woven fabric has caused major maintenance expenses for municipalities nationwide. We get the appeal and love a good wipe for sanitary cleansing or make-up removal, but don’t fall for her charm… avoid a shutdown and let’s keep things moving by throwing anything other than toilet paper in the trash.