Tacoma's strict enforcement of grease-trap requirements for restaurants is creating problems for small business owners, who find the city's rules overly controlling, ambiguous and costly. Suppose ...

Neither are grease traps a catch-all solution, which is why he champions a three-pronged approach of using the right technology, educating the workers and maintaining the machine.

Regularly pumped grease traps and interceptors can also yield somewhat pure FOG, a valuable recyclable resource. FOG can be repurposed to produce fertilizers, soaps, animal feed, and cosmetics.

Grease trap rules vex Tacoma restaurant owners. Tacoma’s strict, expensive approach to a little-known environmental issue has led many in the local restaurant industry to wonder who the city ...

Rolls House, a Korean restaurant in Tacoma’s South End whose owner called attention to the city’s cumbersome and sometimes ...

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A 3-year-old girl in Auburn, Alabama, died after falling into a 6-foot-deep grease trap in October 2017, the AP reported. Her death prompted state lawmakers to pass legislation that would require ...

The Tim Hortons grease trap Bryce fell into is an underground 500-gallon cast concrete tank that filters fats, grease and oils out of the restaurant's wastewater in order to prevent clogs in the ...

Proper waste disposal is often more complicated than people tend to think it would be. Municipal sewer lines are only designed to handle certain types of waste - essentially things ...

AUBURN, Ala. (WRBL) – The family of a 3-year-old Auburn girl, who drowned after falling into a grease trap at Bruster’s in Auburn, is filing a wrongful death lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed ...

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, a five-year-old girl was rescued after falling into a grease trap in March the following year. Sadie Grace Andrews died when she fell into a grease trap in October 2017.

He decided the restaurant’s grease trap, which they also routinely cleaned, was insufficient and that he would issue a $5,000 fine every day until they installed a big, in-ground interceptor.