Last week, Oklahoma City unveiled a new marketing campaign that's supposed to encourage city residents to stop pouring nasty grease down their kitchen sink. The campaign features a cartoon character named "Fogzie." From NewsOK:
What do you get when you combine a sitcom character who embodied cool in the late 1970s and early 1980s with an acronym for fats, oils and grease?
That would be Fogzie, the city's chosen mascot for a public education campaign aimed at reducing the number of sewer backups from drains clogged by grease...
Debbie Regan, spokeswoman for the utilities department, said the city has spent about $700,000 over the last two years cleaning up clogs in city sewer lines caused by people putting grease down their drains"¦
Rather than pouring fats, oils and grease down the drain, city officials want residents to collect them in soup cans, which can be thrown in the trash when they fill up.