At the beginning of May this year, the term ‘fatberg’ was added to the Scrabble dictionary. Previously, the Oxford English Dictionary had defined the term as “a very large mass of solid waste in a […]
100-tonne ‘Glitterberg’ blocks Leeds sewage system
A huddled mass weighing one hundred tonnes – roughly the weight of a commercial aeroplane – is blocking part of Leeds’ underground sewage network. The Glitterberg is a congealed lump of glitter and Vaseline and […]