- 250 yard long mass was found under Whitechapel, east London in September
- It was made of congealed fat, oil, condoms, wet wipes and nappies
- It’s 6m longer than Tower Bridge, and weighs 130 tonnes, almost as much as a blue whale
- It will go on display in 2018 at the Musuem of London as part of the City Now City Future’ season
One part of UK’s biggest fatberg is going on display in the Museum of London next year.
The monster fatberg made headlines earlier this year when it was clogging up sewers in Whitechapel, east London.
The concoction of ‘fat, oil, condoms, wet wipes and grease’ is more than 250 yards long, slightly longer than Tower Bridge and weighs 130 tonnes.
The 250-yard long mass of waste, including fat, oil, condoms, wet wipes and nappies was found under Whitechapel Road, east London in September, it weighs the same as 11 double decker buses
The fatberg goes on display at the Museum of London in Central London in 2018 as part of the ‘City Now, City Future’ exhibition.
While the Museum of London initially hoped to have a ‘large chunk’ of the congealed blob due to the nature in which a fatberg is removed from a sewer, only a shoe box size will go on display.
The display aims to show the environmental impact of modern life and the pressure it’s putting on London’s Victorian infrastructure
The rest has been chopped up and converted into bio-diesel.
The display aims to show the environmental impact of modern life and the pressure it’s putting on London’s Victorian infrastructure.
Curator Vyki Sparkes said it ‘will be one of the most fascinating and disgusting objects we have ever had on display’.
Thames Water’s Stuart White described the fatberg as ‘repulsively human’ saying the fascination with it, which made headlines in more than a hundred countries, comes from the fact its a product of ‘our own modern-day living’.
The work to remove the fatberg involved an eight-man crew who removed 20 to 30 tonnes per shift using a jet hose.
Only a show-box sized slice of the fatberg will go on display, the rest has been chopped up and converted into bio-diesel