Main content

Turning Fatbergs into Fuel

How one company is turning sewer waste into a valuable energy source

Lurking in the sewers beneath the streets there are giant blobs of congealed cooking fat known as 鈥渇atbergs鈥. Now one company has come up with a clever way of making money out of them. Their efforts may one day change perceptions of fatbergs 鈥 turning the lumps of putrid waste into a valuable commodity.

Presenter: Tom Colls
Reporter: Nick Holland

(Image: A fatberg, Credit: Thames Water)

Available now

23 minutes

Last on

Tue 27 Jun 2017 19:06GMT

Broadcasts

  • Tue 27 Jun 2017 02:06GMT
  • Tue 27 Jun 2017 03:06GMT
  • Tue 27 Jun 2017 06:06GMT
  • Tue 27 Jun 2017 07:06GMT
  • Tue 27 Jun 2017 13:06GMT
  • Tue 27 Jun 2017 14:06GMT
  • Tue 27 Jun 2017 19:06GMT

People fixing the world on YouTube

Watch stories of people changing their world on the World Service English YouTube channel