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Drainage and water utilities specialist Lanes Group plc has grown its service capability with continued investment in a modern tanker fleet. In five years, the company has built a fleet of 60 tankers to support contracts with three water companies and a growing number of commercial customers. Roland Leslie, General Manager of the Lanes Tankering…
Christmas revellers and food businesses are being urged not to feed the fatbergs after Lanes Group sewer cleaning teams removed two giant waste monsters from beneath the streets of London. The Lanes teams, working for Thames Water, sliced a 30-tonne fatberg from a sewer beneath Borough Market in Southwark, South London, and a 63-tonne fatberg…
Move aside, Charles Dickens! There’s a new version of “A Christmas Carol” in town this year – turning the classic festive tale into a story about the importance of clean drains. Entitled “The Drains of Christmas Future”, the two-minute animation provides a fun and timely twist on an iconic narrative, warning viewers of exactly what…
Families across the US are being urged to do their bit to prevent unwanted drain blockages this Thanksgiving by taking care over what they choose to put down the sink. The call comes following the successful conclusion of Unblocktober, a groundbreaking new public awareness campaign in the UK that saw more than 4,500 participants coming…
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have been supporting housing developers across Teesside in preparing new drains to be integrated into the sewer system. Teams based at the Lanes depot at Stockton-on-Tees are working for construction companies to make sure sewers built on new housing estates are fit to meet requirements of a Section 104…
The world’s first awareness month aimed at protecting the UK’s sewers and seas has been hailed a major success, after more than 4,500 Brits came together to reduce the amount of troublesome substances and materials being put down the nation’s drains. Unblocktober, led by Lanes Group, challenged individuals and businesses to avoid putting fats, oils…
A North East water company is throwing its weight behind the world’s first sewer blockage awareness month, Unblocktober, and is urging customers to not use toilets as a bin. Unblocktober, launched by the Lanes Group, is all about making small changes to people’s daily habits and only flushing the 3Ps – pee, paper and poo…
Businesses across the country are currently gearing up for the first ever Unblocktober campaign, a groundbreaking new initiative from Lanes Group that aims to save our sewers and seas by encouraging individuals across the country to change their drainage habits this October and beyond. By avoiding putting certain items down their drains or toilets for…
