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TECHNOLOGY & SUSTAINABILITY
Cortec ECO-TRAPTM to reduce grease trap challenges
Restaurants, cafeterias, and other food-processing facilities often face grease trap maintenance chal- lenges. Too much fat build-up can lead to bad smells, clogged drains, and even fines for exceeding acceptable BOD or FOG (fat, oil, grease) discharge levels. Bionetix® International offers a biologi- cal solution for keeping the fat in check and grease traps under control with ECO-TRAPTM.
ECO-TRAPTM is a grease trap treat- ment containing specialty additives that loosen and liquefy heavy grease deposits, thereby speeding up their degradation. ECO-TRAPTM reduces oil and fat accumulation, prevents emer- gency blockages, and reduces BOD and bad odors. ECO-TRAPTM contains bio- logical nutrients and stimulants that boost the natural bacterial population to form a larger colony. The more ben- eficial bacteria are present, the more power is available to break down the fats, oils, and greases filling up the grease trap.
Keeping grease trap contents under control helps facilities avoid a variety of nuisances:
Mechanical Problems: Scum build-up is reduced, pipe drainage is improved, and emergency blockages or grease trap overflows are avoided.
Compliance Problems: Facilities having 56 AMEFT 1 2022
Keeping grease trap contents under control helps facilities avoid a variety of nuisances
trouble meeting BOD or FOG require- ments in their waste discharge can bring these down to an acceptable level to avoid fines and fees.
Odor Problems: Reducing the amount of fat in the grease trap can get rid of bad odors that are offensive to work- ers and customers.
ECO-TRAPTM comes in three different forms to meet the user’s preference. ECO-TRAPTM L is a liquid version that is typically users’ number one choice because of automatic metering. It can be added manually to the grease trap, but it is often injected automatically with the aid of a pump like those used for restaurant dishwashers. This cuts down on the manual labor of daily ap- plication. If manual labor is not a con- cern, users can apply ECO-TRAPTM P, a powder version packaged in water-sol- uble packets that can be added directly to the grease trap in just a few minutes at the end of the day. Still, some users prefer the ECO-TRAPTM BLOC, which contains biological nutrients and stim-
ulants in a slow-release bloc form that can be added directly to a less turbu- lent (but not dead) area of the grease trap for extended treatment.
There are a variety of potential users that stand to benefit from ECO-TRAPTM. Restaurants and food courts are espe- cially good candidates, so are the food processing factories. One excellent ex- ample of solving fat and grease build- up problems comes from a fish can- ning factory that operated 24/7. Their grease trap was so overloaded that the water was completely obscured with a layer of fat. The severity of the prob- lem may have been due to the use of seawater in factory processes slow- ing the digestion of fats due to high chloride content. In spite of this, just two months after applying ECO-TRAPTM in conjunction with BCP22TM (a similar, extra strength treatment for FOG), the water surface had cleared up by 70%, leaving only 30% covered by a fat layer. In another case, a starch factory was able to dramatically reduce TSS and BOD5 levels in just two weeks by add- ing ECO-TRAPTM and BCP22TM to the drain.
Grease traps can be a catch-all for many fat-related problems. Regular use of ECO-TRAPTM helps dissipate these problems so restaurants and food courts can focus on delivering nourishment to people instead of chasing drain clogging and odor problems.
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(Source: Cortec)