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Why Legionnaires’ Disease Is Suddenly A Very Real Problem and What You Can Do To Stop It
Sep 10, 2020 In September, health officials in a Canadian town just outside Vancouver scrambled to explain a rare cluster of Legionnaires’ disease cases in its business district. The problem wasn’t as much a case…
How Grease Interceptors can Reduce Greenhouse Gases
Food establishment operators already know the benefits of using grease interceptors to capture used oil and grease — cleaner sewage systems, reduced costs for wastewater treatment plants and fewer fines from municipalities. Plus, you can…
How Fatty Acids Plus Metallic Ions Create Monsters in your Wastewater System
If you read our post on how emulsions can lead to fats, oil and grease (FOG) escaping a grease interceptor, you know that some grease will inevitably get into the wastewater system. While the amount of…
Five Tactics for Tackling the Thanksgiving Grease-Apocalypse
It happens every year during the holidays: Home cooks rev up their ovens and deep fryers and in go millions of turkeys in preparation for Thanksgiving day feasts. The following day, and sometimes even the…
How Businesses and Municipalities are Battling Cooking Oil Thieves
Across the country and around the world criminals are targeting a new kind of “liquid gold” — used cooking oil. The headlines say it all: “Three charged in Harford in $1 million scheme to steal…
Six Tactics Cities Use to Keep FOG Out of Wastewater Systems
Fats, oils and grease (FOG) in wastewater are one of the biggest challenges facing wastewater systems around the world. Grease, sometimes along with solids, can build up into a solid mass that can narrow or…
How Dirty Waste Makes for Clean Energy
For the past few decades, scientists have experimented with using all kinds of waste, from animal to human, to produce methane gas via anaerobic digestion. As arguably the largest supplier of organic waste, some large-scale…
How Asheboro is Tackling Waste-to-Energy Projects
Like many wastewater treatment facilities, the Asheboro Wastewater Treatment Plant, is under constant pressure to do more with less. Already, the facility has cut in half the amount of electricity it uses to run the blowers in…
How the Asheboro Wastewater Treatment Plant Achieves More with Less
The Asheboro Wastewater Treatment Plant was built in 1962, during a different era. The Cuban Missile Crisis was right around the corner and America had just launched a space race to put the first man…