South West Water is reminding people to help avoid a foul festive season and fight off fatbergs by preventing cooking fats, oils and greases from going down the sink.
A single medium-sized turkey produces up to three quarters of a pint of fat and if put down pipes it cools and could potentially block them.
With almost one million households served by South West Water across the region, if each each one poured their turkey fat down their sinks it would mean the equivalent of over 2,800 bathtubs full of fat entering our sewers, an equivalent of 422,786 litres.
