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?

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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.

Doggy bags are awful for the environment ... just wrap them in paper and then dispose of.

Discussed only 2;days ago in Good Housekeeping!

www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/news/a43348/tampon-disposal/

This was the advice when i was a teen too. I got in trouble because when I used towels I put them in the bin - was supposed to rip them up and flush them.

@LemonysSnicket helpful, but I'm not picking up my large dog's poo in paper! Using the bags for the tampons as it's a solution I already have to hand! Biodegradable, allegedly.

Laiste I think you must have missed a recent thread where the women flooding myth was debunked by several mumsnetters. It might be worth educating yourself on that too if you're going to use that excuse

We use biodegradable nappy bags

Bag it and bin it.

Then you just destroy the oceans with yet more plastic.

I get heavy periods and can flood a tampon quite easily...sit on the toilet and out it falls. Nothing to do with pelvic floor but hey judge the fuck away if it makes you feel better about yourselves

I haven’t read a tampon box in about 30 years as I learned pretty quickly how to use them...it was only from reading it on here a few years ago that I realised they shouldn’t be flushed

Where do I need to go to be publicly flogged please on account of my heavy bleeding and years of ignorance?

Or preferably, why not take your fucking judginess and stick it right up your gold plated arses

So fed up with calling the water board out to unblock the sewer that other houses discharge into but is in our front garden. Tampons and wet wipes are the usual culprit. 3 times this year and we don't even use tampons or wet wipes, or sanitary towels.

Half of UKmwomen flush tampons

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/21/flushing-tampons-toilet-blocks-drains-sanitary-products

I used to use flushable arse wipes. I bloody loved using moist arse wipes. I’m in my 50s, and fairly savvy; I assumed that because they were ’flushable’, they were fine to flush. Then I read (on MN) about the problems that they cause, and I don’t use them anymore.

Sometimes people don’t know what they don’t know, but getting the message out calmly and without judgement is more important than scoring points calling people ignorant.

I used to flush wet wipes out of ignorance, I wasn't aware they couldn't be flushed. I was mortified when I got a letter from my landlord that I'd blocked the pipes. Never done it since, they all go in the bin.

I don't have periods so tampons not an issue.

How was flooding debunked ? I would love to be told I'm mythical instead of menopausal

I think flushable just means that they will go away when you flush the loo. It doesn't mean that they will dissolve in water.
Some tampons do fall out. Even on a lightish day.

Flushing things down the loo could result in having to call out a plumber.

Don't wash fat and food down the sink. They make fatbergs.

I could just as easily say 'to not understand how you can be so ignorant and unaware of the world around you are still using tampons?'
Moon cups people.

If your tampons falling out then you are using the wrong ones or putting it in wrong.

I could solve this problem overnight!
You flush san pro/baby wipes down the loo you pay to sort it!
You see, I have a septic tank which is solely my responsibility! So if I flush a tampon down the string gets caught around the motor. If I flush other san pro /wipes down they cause a blockage. I call someone out who sorts it and then bills me a few hundred for doing so!
If everyone was charged for the damage they did it would stop overnight

Admittedly I haven't used tampons for years but when I did I flushed them. My mother told me that it was okay to flush them unless the house was on a septic tanks and pads go in the bin. Can't ever recall having a conversation about it with anyone after that.

I don't think I'm putting them in wrong and I've been doing it for decades. It only happened with one brand and it wasn't a budget brand.

It was only on MN quite recently that I learned not to flush tampons (I've never flushed wet wipes of course)

Great thread, we need to raise awareness.

Tampons don't fall out, ever. You must be doing something very wrong

Abbs my understanding of the thread I was referring to was that in some people's minds, if it hasn't happened to you then it isn't real and the many many women who claim to have experienced such a phenomenon are all liars and probably part of a conspiracy which likely involves chemtrails I may have embellished at the end

Oh jfc, there isn't a bigger tampon I can use, short of stuffing an entire kitchen roll up there and yes, it could still fall out as I sit down on the loo after just an hour to an hour and a half. I'd bloody love to never have that problem, believe me. Should I just sit on the loo all day in my heaviest day?

*on

This is off the thread title but relevant imo-we have a way to go with plastics never mind 'natural' fibres being flushed. I clean the local beach every week with a bunch of other people and the volume of cotton buds found is ridiculous and sickening. These are landing up on the beach because people with no brains flush them down the toilet. No other reason. We should worry about flushing plastics. It beggars belief but it happens, a lot.