To think that we need to stop flushing anything down the toilet except for toilet paper.

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metro.co.uk/2022/06/16/calls-for-mandatory-do-not-flush-labelling-on-wet-wipes-16840997/

Wipes are often described as biodegradable but they don't biodegrade in the sewer. They biodegrade in landfill over a long period of time.

I really welcome Yorkshire's stance on this and it would be hoped that all councils and water companies will clamp down on the use of them.

There needs to be better labelling on packs of wet wipes and a shift away from using them, particularly as many contain micro plastics that leach into waterways.

If you need to use them then put them in a bin so that councils can incinerate or bury them where they can decompose.

I used to flush tampons in the nineties but wouldn't dream of it since I read about it about 20 years ago.
Now I use reusable pads when heavy or period pants for lighter days.
Don't use any wipes, just loo paper but if I'm messy (have IBD) I shower or if out, use hot water and soap to clean.

My mum has a plumbed in bum shower (small shower head next to her loo), it's awesome!

I thought it was a truth universally known that you do not flush wipes?
For years I thought I could flush tampons so that was a shocker when I realised.
Some cat litter is advertised as flushable which can't be right.

Nope, still always binned them, then again I had to use a pad as well so always just wrapped it up in that. Have had the odd one come out with gravity though and those did get flushed .

In the 80's everyone tore and flushed pads. Then sanny bins started being introduced in pubic toilets and people started to get the message not to flush them at all.

I'm not sure we can assume anything in this area is universally known. Unlike that bowel stuff advert in real life we don't tend to discuss bodily functions over a coffee.

Maybe bidets are the way to go in general.

I used to live in the UK and have wondered the same. No idea why it isn't more widely used over there! Would love for someone to shed some light on this

Sit further back on the seat so you can reach in front. Hold onto the string and get a wadge of loo paper in the other hand to wrap the tampon in. Place in paper disposal bag in necessary before putting in the bin.

If your tampon is so bloody that it slips out before you have a chance to catch it to wrap it, then maybe you need a more absorbent tampon or consider a mooncup?

Heavy periods doesn't sit right with me as an excuse of littering the beaches with used tampons.

I think doctors need to stop pretending it's normal to have such heavy periods that tampons behave like that but that's a whole other topic.

Those people who 'don't want a bin full of shitty wipes' - can I ask what you did when your DC were babies and presumably shat in their nappies? (I'm assuming that folk who are happy to flush wipes aren't the likely demographic for using cloth nappies).

But then they wouldn’t have any interesting documentaries about fatbergs ☹️

No!

Ffs!!! You flush tampons & pads!!

I use them, much more hygienic than a toilet brush

Do you have DC? What did you do with baby wipes/disposable nappies?

How hygienic does it need to be? A toilet brush is rinsed in the flush and put in a pot. No one ever actually touches the brush or the toilet bowl do they.

It always amazes me how a nappy can fit down the toilet!!!

Some of us have never done this. People are idiots, surely it's been in the news often enough about the fatbergs etc? They should start charging more to unblock drains when it's down to stuff like this.

Basically quite a lot of people are thick and make
no attempt to educate themselves in many areas of life. It’s depressing! I used cloth nappies and reusable wipes for twins, use menstrual cups and washable pads now and also have a bowel disorder so well aware of how sore it can be when you have many liquid movements per day. I still don’t use single use wipes or even consider flushing them because I’m not a selfish twat. Reusable wipes are great for adults as well as babies!!

No way am i having a bin full of shitty wipes sitting in my bathroom, nor then carrying it through my house and having shitty wipes in my outside bin. That's incredibly unhygienic and plain disgusting

Wow, so people who dispose of their dog's poo and kid's nappies in their own bins, even their wheelie bin, are unhygienic and disgusting?

It always amazes me the lengths people go to to have a germ free toilet. You are literally hovering over it and pissing/shitting down it. You are not eating anything out of it.
I once read somewhere that the toilet was more often than not, the cleanest thing in the average household. Sure food prep areas should be the cleanest?

@ginghamstarfish i like the idea. But from this thread (I know a very small sample of the population), it seems that the people who don’t flush irresponsibly are the same people who have to pay for the unblocking, those that block their neighbours shared drains seem to get away with it.
Perhaps the cost should be added /shared amongst all those on the same part of the drainage system? might educate the uncaring a bit quicker??

I do know that, I just don't want a toilet brush sitting in a pot in the water that's coming off it. Anyway, surely it's not great for the environment to use a toilet brush with plastic bristles that will need replacing every so often? At least the Duck brush heads are biodegradable.

Actually the best thing I did for toilet cleaning was to get a rimless toilet - nowhere for limescale to gather and much easier to clean.

I just don't want a toilet brush sitting in a pot in the water that's coming off it.

Just clean it. It's not hard.