NEW YORK — New York may be number one in a lot of areas, but it's their Number Twos that are now getting them into trouble. <br />According to the New York Post, the Big Apple has a pretty stinky fatberg problem clogging up its sewers because New Yorkers keep flushing things down the can they shouldn't be. <br />According to the Post, the city Department of Environmental Protection blew $19 million last year removing fatbergs from the city's underbelly, a cost that has doubled in the past decade. <br />The DEP had to wipe up 2,100 fatbergs throughout the city's sewer system in 2018. <br />And if you spread the cheeks a bit, it looks like flushable wipes are the main culprits, accounting for 90 percent of the solids captured at sorting screens at 14 treatment plants around the city. <br />According to the paper, the DEP sent more than 53,000 tons of wet wipes and other junk to landfills. Giant industrial-sized dumpsters are jammed with wipes day after day, and then trucked away numerous times a week. <br />One reason for the log jam is that most wipes marketed as "flushable" don't actually disintegrate and thus the costly back ups. <br />There's nothing wrong with a squeaky clean backside, just remember to throw it in the trash. You'd be doing a real SOLID for your local sewage treatment plant worker.
