NP Media Plumbing Group Multimedia Editor Nadia Askar recently sat down with Michael Whiteside, president and owner of Chicago-based MIFAB.

MIFAB’s one-piece HDPE wet-waste interceptor features two removable ABS plastic strainer trays

There’s an old saying, repeated in the recent novel “Asymmetry” by Lisa Halliday, about how “the foreign journalist who travels to the Middle East and stays a week goes home to write a book in which he presents a pat solution to all of its problems.

Scary descriptions of “monster fatbergs” that have blocked sewer water in Baltimore and the U.K. make for effective newswriting. But clogged-artery metaphors and gross-out tactics aside, fat, oil and grease (FOG) do pose an expensive threat to sanitary sewer collection systems.

Josam’s 60100-H-GRD Series epoxy-coated, fabricated-steel grease interceptor features a 110v-powered grease pump, reclaim tank with draw-off valve, no-hub connections, internal trap, removable diffuser baffle, gasketed non-skid center bolt cover, flow control fitting and PDI seal of approval.

The Central Florida ASPE chapter likes to think outside the box.

MIFAB’s Big Max grease interceptor is manufactured from seamless, rotationally molded, high-density polyethylene (H.D.P.E.) for superior structural integrity and comes with an H-20 load-rated lid as a standard feature, MIFAB notes.

Zurn’s Proceptor Dual Manway is a fiberglass gravity grease interceptor that captures and separates wastewater grease, food solids and sediment. Zurn notes the fiberglass design is easy to clean and maintain and has a lightweight construction.

GreaseShield’s GS25-PF is a proactive mechanical grease trap that works in real time by taking advantage of waste thermal energy being discharged from commercial kitchens to remove FOGs before they solidify.

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