To not understand how you can be so ignorant and unaware of the world around you that you still flush wet wipes and tampons down the toilet?

[A580Hojas]

How is it even possible in the information age?

I reckon a huge number of people know they shouldn't do it but flush anyway in the hope they will get away with it and they won't be the one having to dig out any resulting blockage.

Much like the hundreds of thousands of cunts who chuck their litter out of car windows - out of sight out of mind.

Gets me down, it does.

I never thought of either of those ideas, i live right next door to a pub.

When I first started using them (18 years ago!), the boxes did say you could flush tampons. I did for a while, until we got a blockage and my parents bought a bathroom bin. Ever since I've wrapped and binned everything.
DP has a bad habit of flushing baby wipes though, so I keep them out of the bathroom, and always keep the flushable toilet wipes handy.

oil - I don't deep fry anything so I don't have large quantities to dispose of.
pans are wipes with a paper towel which then goes in the compost/food waste bin.

The only things to flush down the loo are loo roll and whatever you did on the loo in the first place!

NeeChee “flushable toilet wipes” don’t exist. They don’t break down, block up pipes and have to be cleared out at sewage plants. That’s a marketing ploy to make you buy them. Nothing can be flushed apart from loo roll and whatever came out of you!

I only found out when my teenager told me the other day because someone had told her! It used to be ok to flush them.

How is not knowing something ignorance?

But you can be forgiven for thinking that a product specifically marketed and labelled as a flushable wipe would in fact be flushable.

If you read the packaging and follow the directions for disposal (they say you can flush but not more than 1-2 a time), it's not unreasonable to think you're doing the right thing

@Louiselouie0890

Because that's what the OED defines it as: lack of knowledge or information.

All the women telling other women tampons can't fall out come across really fucking dense, stop it

Can I just add to this post the fact that Mooncups are fantastic- easy to use and less pollution to the environment. Try them people.

Does anyone know if tots bots nappy liners are supposed to be flushed? I used them with my last kid and always flushed. I'm due to give birth soon and will switch to reusable liners if they aren't.

no, nappy liners are not flushable

How do people dispose of cooking oil? Obviously solidifying fat is kinda easier as you can scrape most in the bin, but where does excess sunflower oil go?

I use one of these www.lakeland.co.uk/search/absorb%20bin%20fat%20absorber
The liner then goes in the food recycling.

I’ve been using sanpro since 1980 and was never told to flush but I’ve always had bathroom bins and there were sani bins in the loos at school.

If your worried about the plastic in the more usual disposal bags then these work out at just over a penny per bag...

The photo should be after my last paragraph! I don’t use a sanpro bag for my kitchen fat.

To the people who say they had no idea you shouldnt flush tampons, what about the signs / stickers inside public toilets, shopping centre toilets, restaurant toilets everywhere that says "please do not flush sanitation products down the toilet".

I'm actually amazed at how many people flush their sanitary products! I've never heard of anyone flushing them. I guess it largely depends what you were told at the time of starting your period. There definitely needs to be more awareness of this I think.

Re: tampons falling out. (rant warning)

Do we need an 'i believe you' campaign for WOMEN to believe what other women are telling them about their experiences with tampons?

To include the belief that it's something which just happens sometimes and it's not a fault thing.

To understand that we're all different and it's not happening because we're a bit thick and 'doing it wrong', or 'need to work on our pelvic floors' or 'buying the wrong thing'. How patronising.

They're not dropping out as we walk round tesco FGS; coming down our jeans leg. They're not dropping out because we've mistakenly tucked them up our arse or been stuffing up the only tampon shaped thing we could get our hands on for the last 36 years because we're thick as shit

Yes, 36 years. Since i was 14. I have 4 kids of my own now.

I have reasonably easy paid free periods lasting about 4 /5 days but I've flooded on day 1 all those years.

I've had the soaked tampon slips down till you can feel it a bit sometimes all those years.

I've had the sometimes a soaked tampon just plops out as soon as you sit on the loo all those years.

I've got the 'period shits' (whyyyyyy??) nearly every month all those years.

If you have not had the above at all i'm not surprised. We're all different.

• I've tried a mooncups but didn't get on very well.
• I've tried tampons with and without applicators.

-The one which suits me best is lillets with an applicator, but for some reason they've getting harder to find in the shops. Great.

• Occasionally i use pads only for a break.
• Hopefully i wont have sodding periods for much longer but at the mo they're regular as clockwork still.

Enough.

Louiselouie0890
ignorance
ˈɪɡn(ə)r(ə)ns/
noun
noun: ignorance
lack of knowledge or information.

You might need to look up common sense.

snash12 I suppose they just assume they relate to issues in that set of loos/ building. There are lots of rules in public buildings that I don’t follow at home

I think one complication is that a lot of people subconsciously associate the words ''sanitary product'' with sanitary towels - not tampons. It's a word thing.

(Especially as - as this thread shows - many many women were told to flush tampons originally and are carrying on.)

Further confusion is being caused by fecking wipe companies being allowed to put 'flushable' on their packaging when they are not! Mixed messages are damaging.

The message is not clear. There is more than one reason why.

I agree with you Laiste on the believing each other thing.

I often feel like I'm not good at adulting because my management of periods is so poor. However, when I flooded at someone's house through a tampon and a pad, her horror and sympathy reassured me that I just had a bigger challenge than most people.

Period poo, flooding, personal physiology... sometimes a tampon is going to go down the loo.

That said, now I use cups and washable pads, so all good!

I didn’t know about milk down a kitchen drain. I’m really careful with fats and anything slightly thick like yogurt though.

My understanding is ‘flushable’ wipes aren’t really flushable so that’s one reason. If a packet tells you it’s ok you aren’t going to argue.
I was also taught to flush sanitary products at school, although I’ve known better from about 20.