It can take weeks of manual labour to break up and remove fatbergs Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images
THE fatbergs are coming. These huge lumps of cooking oil and wet wipes lurk beneath UK streets, threatening to block sewers and put everyone off their lunch.
And they really are huge. In 2017, a monstrous 250-metre-long fatberg that weighed 130 tonnes was found under Whitechapel in east London – a piece of it still . In 2018, another rivalling it in size was found south of the river Thames and later analysed on a TV programme called
