The New York City Department of Environmental Protection cites grease as a major cause of back-ups in its 6,000 miles of sewers lines. The back-ups can lead to sewage entering homes and businesses, ...

Every night, an employee at Eda Johnson’s new restaurant in the Stadium District dons a mask and heads downstairs to a storage room with a clipboard and a pen. The mission is to scrape the gunk out of ...

Suppose the city where you live could show up at your house, demand that you dig a giant hole in your driveway or maybe the front lawn, plonk down a concrete box and reroute the pipes from your ...

I, being in the restaurant business for 50-plus years in Easthampton, see every year that is never the same. Just recently I was told I could clean the grease trap, a small inside unit and dispose of ...

Driven by a well-intended commitment to public health, the City of Tacoma has painted itself into a bureaucratic corner that punishes small businesses the city claims to support. Reporter Kristine ...

OZARK, Mo. (KY3) - Some business owners in Ozark are complaining about a new service charge on their utility bills for fat, oil and grease (FOG) traps. The City will begin charging the $19.25/month ...

Rochester, N.Y. – Monroe County officials began conducting safety sweeps on grease traps at local businesses Thursday. This comes after a three-year-old boy died last week when he fell into a grease ...

Tacoma can sometimes feel like a place for the little-er guy. Where an aspiring entrepreneur can start a small business without the hyper expensive rents and other daily costs of a city like Seattle.

Grease traps are required to be inspected monthly and cleaned before the amount of grease exceeds 25 percent of the interceptor’s capacity. Written logs of grease trap inspections, cleaning and ...

Behind a market in southwest Houston on Tuesday, Elton Childs and his crew dragged the cover off a grease trap and used a vacuum to suck brown, putrid sludge out of the hole. The 900-gallon grease ...