River turns yellow in ‘curry capital of Britain’ after being polluted with food waste

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Richard Hartley-Parkinson for Metro.co.uk




A river in Bradford has turned yellow because there’s so much waste being dumped by local curry houses.

The city in West Yorkshire, dubbed the ‘curry capital of Britain’ has an ancient plumbing system meaning that buildings often dump waste into subterranean becks.

Many of the restaurants are not connected to the sewerage system so when dishes are cleaned, the Bradford Beck – which goes to the River Aire – was being flooded by leftover curry.

Bradford has scooped the Curry Capital of Britain six times but its success as a gastronomic hotspot has sparked pollution problems.

Rob Hellawell, 49, is part of Friends of Bradford’s Beck, which was set up in 2012 to address the problem of the pollution on the beck.


Many curry houses are not connected to the main sewer system and the water collects in the beck (Picture: SWNS)

Since its set up they have been fighting to clear up the curry in the stream. Environmentalist Rob was handed the task of finding a big curry source last year.

After six months of monitoring, he finally located a big offender located near another river, Westbrook Beck, another tributary of the River Aire.

Rob said: ‘It turned out the output was entirely innocent.

‘It wasn’t like the business owners were throwing waste curry out of their window, they were just washing their pots as usual and unbeknown to them it was landing in the beck.

‘Once we made them aware of the problem they rectified it right away by changing the plumbing.


Friends of Bradford’s Beck was set up in 2012 to address the problem (Picture: SWNS)

‘We were delighted to finally clear up this large curry problem, but it is a problem all over Bradford.

‘The old systems, at the time of the Industrial Revolution, saw businesses dump straight into the public watercourse.

‘Nowadays there are a lot of new extensions built where washing machines are plumbed into the drains rather than the foul sewerage system.

‘Builders see a drain and connect to it, without realising what it is.’

Bradford reputation as a curry hotspot is no accident.

The city boasts 200 Asian restaurants and employs almost 100,000 in the industry.

The large Asian population of the city is down to the demand for immigrants during the Industrial Revolution when the textile industry was thriving and Bradford needed more manpower.

[Muddy]

Those mother fuggers can stink some shit up...

[Goofy]

[deebakes]

[Hugh_Janus]

I had a curry last week

[lost in melb.]

Go to India and add poo poos and wee wees to the mix

[Hugh_Janus]

dey eat da poopoo