over the Easter holidays
Keep your drains clear after Easter dinner!
It’s easy to assume that the warm grease left in your pan or roasting dish after cooking a delicious Easter roast dinner would be okay to pour down the sink, and that if you wash it with soapy water it will be fine. However, Fats Oils and Greases (FOGs) may seem like liquid when poured down the sink, but they cool and harden after being washed away and can lead to the creation of the dreaded fatberg. Fatbergs are a combination of FOGs and sanitary waste, such as wet wipes, and are not pretty. FOGs should never be washed down the sink, especially over the Easter holidays.
Wastewater blockages and our environment
When FOGs combine with wipes and other sanitary items that shouldn’t be flushed down the toilet, blockages can form in our homes, businesses, public sewer network and wastewater treatment plants. These blockages can even lead to overflows of sewage that can damage the environment. It’s not just greases from cooking we need to be careful of pouring down the drain. Many products contain fats and oils and should be handled carefully while being disposed of, including gravy and other sauces, food scrapings, mayonnaise and salad dressings, ground coffee and loose tea leaves, ice-cream and dairy products. When and where you can stick, these items in the bin rather than down the sink.
So what can we do to avoid an Easter drain disaster?
So what can we do to avoid an Easter drain disaster?
Cool, collect, bin
The first step to keeping your drains clear is to allow your FOGs from cooking to cool down, collect them in a suitable container (like an egg carton or a glass jar) and stick them in the bin. Enter our prize giveaway below and you might win two very suitable containers!
Scrape and wipe
Next up, before washing your pates, pots and pans, give them a wipe with some kitchen paper and stick that in the bin too. The idea here is to minimise the amount of grease from cooking going down the drain.
Use a sink strainer
Finally, use a sink strainer if you have one. This collects any small scraps of food that can also contribute to the creation of blockages and even fatbergs. And that’s it! Three small steps towards being conscientious in the kitchen this holiday season!
Think Before You Flush
Think Before You Pour is part of the Think Before You Flush campaign, it brings the campaign from the bathroom to the kitchen. To learn more about the Think Before You Flush Campaign, head to our homepage below…