AIBU to start a campaign to ban wipes?

[annandale]

Wipes are an environmental disaster, a key component of fatbergs and sold as a flushable essential when they should be treated like morphine - controlled except for specific medical needs. Anyone with me?

For those denying these things are sold as "flushable"
www.ageukincontinence.co.uk/andrex-classic-clean-flushable-wipes.html?utm_campaign=ShoppingFeed&utm_source=google&utm_medium=merchantcenter&utm_content=Health%20%3E%20Cleansing%20and%20hygiene%20%3E%20Wipes%20%3E%20Wet%20Wipes&gclid=Cj0KCQjw9afOBRDWARIsAJW4nvyXDO7zUnUkXXQbhxx1S3iLIHDHCp467DGfqPJ6OC1rmpAZB_H7dEsaAlDfEALw_wcB

No one is denying they are sold as flushable.

But they are a godsend for me and kids.

Too bad your, and our, children will be drowning in the stuff in the next years.

For years we managed with holding the baby under a running tap and washing its bum so Im at a loss as to why water no longer works

Can't believe how little you care for the planet that you would waste all that water, when a wipe would do the job!

If we were out and about we used baby lotion and cotton wool. It was all folded up in the terry nappy and was flushed away at home

All that cotton wool just thrown away - what a waste! And all that energy wasted boil-washing those terry nappies! Were you trying to destroy the planet?

Can't believe how little you care for the planet that you would waste all that water, when a wipe would do the job!

Thank you for the laugh even though Im in bed with Bronchitis and it set off a really painful bout of coughing.

There is so much out there of you want to think about the environment.

www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/19/dont-flush-wet-wipes-toilet-conservationists

Coconut, the cotton wool would have broken down, not stayed in the sea killing aquatic life for years.

Coconut, the cotton wool would have broken down, not stayed in the sea killing aquatic life for years

I think they're just having a laugh.

What do you do if you have a period without baby wipes in public?

shouldnthavesaid I've gone out my whole life having periods in public without ever using a baby wipe to clean myself up. Loo paper is fine.

I've had a quick chat with my Mum and she says that before wipes it was a lot harder for women to go out and they were more chained to the home.

So this campaign is anti feminist.

Innit.

controlled like morphine
Can you imagine the chaos, patient needs help with personal hygiene, just need to get a dr to prescribe the required wipes then two nurses to check them out the cupboard and use them. I think the OP may just have discovered how to bring the Nhs to its knees

Me too Annie and I had major surgery this week because my periods are so heavy. In hospital recovering right now.

Or use cloths sweet potato.

Even for patients with cdiff the NHS doesn't use disposable bedlinen.

I've had a quick chat with my Mum and she says that before wipes it was a lot harder for women to go out and they were more chained to the home

So this campaign is anti feminist

Innit

Thats another laugh and bout of coughing that now has my head splitting.

We've had the same with cotton wool buds. I don't flush them, I put them in the bin, and I want to continue using them.

Deal with the people who are either not knowledgeable enough to realise you don't flush, or are just selfish. But don't ban useful things for the rest of the population.

I have to confess I have flushed wipes (wet loo roll type) because I thought it was ok to do so as hey were marketed as wet loo roll and it said you could flush them. But we've not had them for a long time. If I have other wipes I don't flush them. They go in the bin, which in my area goes to the incinerator to generate electricity.

I do not understand why one would need a stash in every room. Surely if you have a spill or need to clean a child up you get the appropriate kind of cloth?
Yes, I did use wipes for cleaning baby bottoms (at nappy stage) but never since and never for anything else.

Stop manufacturers claims of WASHABLE and fine those who flout...

God these threads make me depressed. Of course wipes are more convenient than cloths. Of course there are situations where it might make sense to use them (birth injuries etc as mentioned up thread), but if everyone is so self centred and short sighted as to think that their personal convenience of having wipes in every room for every kind of cleaning job outweighs the environmental impact that this disposable culture is having, then we are in dire straights.

And once again, it's NOT just about the flushable/not flushable issue. Even if you bin them they hang around for years.

I think this will gather momentum. It took along time to bring about the plastic bag change but I think there will be a change in time.

Increasing prices or a 'bum wipe tax' would help.

I think it is amazing how there is a wipe for every situation these days, polishing, cleaning, floors, windows, loos and god knows what else. The wipe industry has grown exponentially and someone is making billions from it.

I hope it changes though.

www.water.org.uk/news-water-uk/latest-news/campaign-calls-ban-misleading-wet-wipes-advertising

When I say gather momentum, I don't mean the OP's idea, especially when comparing wipes to opiates or whatever it was.

Hopefully conservation groups will raise enough awareness that governments and industry have to listen/take action.

I think it is amazing how there is a wipe for every situation these days, polishing, cleaning, floors, windows, loos and god knows what else

Yes. And if people just used a wipe for one less job to start with it would soon make a bit of a difference.