HOUSEHOLD TIPS

1. Store cooking fat, grease, or oils in jars and dispose of them with your household garbage or take them to your community recycling center.

2. Put paper diapers, sanitary napkins, tampons, prophylactics, rags, cigarette butts, and coffee grounds in the garbage can not the toilet. These objects can jam pumps and pipes on the way to or at the plant. Besides, primary treatment must screen out theses objects, an operator or machine must scrape them out of the screens and they wind up in a landfill any way.

3. Hair flushed down a drain or toilet is especially bad, too. Hair doesn't decompose easily and can clog up pipes at the plant as easily as it can clog up pipes in your sink.

4. If you've got a garbage disposal in your sink, use it sparingly. The more food down the sink, the more organic material the plant must treat.

5. Use detergents sparingly and make sure they're free of or low in phosphates. Phosphates can cause algae-clogged lakes and rivers.

6. Flushing solids, paint, solvents, or other harsh caustics down drains can upset the chemistry of the treatment plant and can cause volatile conditions in the sewers.

7. Conserve water. flush your toilet less often; use your dishwasher only when full; take shorter showers. The less waste water your treatment plant must process, the more efficient and long-lasting it will be.

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Last modified: March. 12th, 1998

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