Candy wrappers, floss, tampons: The secret ingredients of sewer-clogging fatbergs

Grist
By Jessica Leigh HesterNov 22, 2018, 7:00 am276 pts
This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Wherever they’re found, fatbergs — giant mounds of fats, oils, and debris that accumulate in sewers — have many things in common. Stinky, sprawling, subterranean, they start small,…

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