Water company bosses have shared distressing images of wasted Yorkshire puddings which had been flushed down the toilet.
Anglian Water posted pictures of the squandered roast dinner favourites after a load were found dumped in an Ipswich sewer.
The puddings had blocked a drain, with the company tweeting: “We're sure even our friends at @YorkshireWater wouldn't welcome this sight!
“Somebody dumped a load of Yorkshire puddings in an Ipswich sewer.
"Please don't treat sewers as bins, avoid blocked pipes and compost your food waste!”
The company has to deal with one blockage every 15 minutes, with about 30,000 a year in the region.
It says 80 per cent of sewer blockages are avoidable, adding: “Avoidable blockages caused by unflushables lead to sewer flooding of homes and environmental pollution, which is distressing, costly to put right, and potentially devastating for wildlife and our local waterways and seas.”
It helpfully advises people to “only flush the three ‘Ps’ – pee, (toilet) paper and poo”.
