At a busy, large seafood restaurant — one that specializes in southern-fried dishes — kitchen grease was moving faster than customers’ forks. But the restaurant’s concrete interceptor couldn’t handle the flow, causing lotchen grease to be discharged directly into the sanitary sewer system. The discharge created a blockage at a nearby municipal pumping station used to pump effluent to the local sewage treatment plant. The blockage clogged the station’s pumps, reducing its ability to transfer wastewater.

First published in 2007, this is the fourth edition of IAPMO Z1001 and the first to be published as an ANS and NSC.

So, one day we did a web-search for Mike Rowe and “Dirty Jobs,” asking: Was there a show that had Mike, hands, shoulders and head deep within a big, fat grease trap? 

All over the world, fats oils and grease (FOG) clog sewers every day. The United States is no exception. 

Wade, a manufacturer of drainage products, entered into a master distribution agreement with Grease Guardian, a manufacturer of grease management solutions for restaurants, commercial kitchens and other foodservice facilities.

The grease interceptor has been in use since the Victorian era as a means to reduce the amount of fats, oils and grease, or FOG, that are introduced into sewer systems. 

Zurn’s FOG-ceptor 250-gal. grease and oil hydro-mechanical interceptor features a patented laminar flow pattern to filter pollutants without scouring, leaking or corroding.

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.