Don’t Let Your Holidays Turn into a Plumbing Horror Story!
With Halloween and Thanksgiving around the corner, the District reminds residents to properly dispose of pumpkin guts and cooking grease. Never put either down the drain—can the grease and trash the guts!
Pumpkin innards may look harmless, but their sticky, stringy, and seedy texture can clog pipes, jam garbage disposals, and dry into a glue-like mess. Flushing them down the toilet is just as frightening, often leading to backups and water waste.
Holiday cooking can leave behind gallons of oil and grease. When poured down the sink, grease cools, hardens, and coats the inside of pipes, eventually causing costly blockages and even sewer overflows. It can also pollute waterways if dumped outside or into storm drains. Take advantage of South Platte Renew’s Annual Grease Takeback program on December 6.
Simple steps can save you a nightmare:
- Scrape grease, fats, and food scraps into a can or the trash.
- Collect used cooking oil for safe disposal.
- Toss pumpkin guts in the garbage or compost them when possible.
Protect your home, your wallet, and our community’s water systems—because no one wants raw sewage or a clogged pipe ruining the holiday season!