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In the kitchen, cooking oil, shortening, butter, lard or meat drippings are meant to stop things from sticking together. But when grease goes down the drain, something entirely different happens – it binds with wipes and other detritus, quickly hardening into congealed, gluey “fatbergs” that ruin plumbing and sewers. …
“Don’t put kitchen oil down the drain – it can clog your pipes and it is easy to dispose of grease in your green bin,” said Malcolm Brodie, Mayor of Richmond and Chair of Metro Vancouver’s Zero Waste Committee. “This is a problem throughout the region and the solution is simple.” …