To be annoyed about Wet Wipes ban

[JackiePlace]

I have never put them down the toilet, but because too many stupid people do, I will no longer be able to clean my bum hole properly!
And don't have a large bathroom so there's no space for a bidet, before anyone suggests it.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/21930809/wet-wipes-banned-plans/

No, in a wet bag, which then goes into the changing bag. Nothing gross about it.

They are terrible for the whole planet but who cares eh 🙄
as it happens they aren’t banning them all.

Should have been banned 5 years ago.

You literally don’t seem to understand the concept. There is no stench. When I am out with my son and he has done a poo, the dirty wipe gets zipped into a wet bag which then goes into the changing bag (also zipped closed). The wet bag and its contents are then washed later. It’s really not difficult to understand.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a plain old toilet paper gal, but some people on this thread clearly avoided the mangle arseholes from pregnancy hemorrhoids 😂 takes me a good 10 mins to get the poor thing clean with loo roll. Whenever I get the pleasure of using Wipes or a bidet, I wonder how many hours of my life ive pointlessly lost wiping my arse

Not if you buy decent stuff it doesn't - we use the Costco branded stuff and it's still strong after a soaking

We managed cloth nappies, wipes and from
birth (once home) and nursery loved them too. That’s with working long hours and rarely being home.

Now DD is 3.5 and we still use washable wipes for everything, child and adult. The nappy bucket has a permanent place in our bathroom for wipes for anything. I use for my period pants too.

I used to take a few dampened wipes out in a small wet bag for easy grabbing and a stack of dry ones to wet as required. Never had an issue and that includes changing in my stable, car and in more refined places with a toilet.

I can’t imagine buying and binning all that “stuff” (nappies, baby wipes, santitary protection, cleaning wipes). We just never did, I had one emergency pack of disposable nappies and wipes kept in, and every time they went to the food bank when the nappies were outgrown. Horrid chemical things.

I do understand disability issues and that might necessitate disposable at times, but even then in a lot of cases reusable is better. My grandmother’s care home is exploring minimizing waste options (they use a lot of pads etc for incontinence). If they can, private homes can try too.

If you read the s*n, you'll always be slightly shitty, no matter how many wipes you use.

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this doctor explains why water is better

You really are sounding unhinged. There are literally tens of thousands of us carrying around reusuable products. You will be passing/sitting/standing by someone every day and have no idea.
Having bins full of rotting disposables is far less hygienic.

@MrsMischiefOnTour Nothing gross about trying to save the planet 💪

And me. We must be rank

It's really common.

I have always used reusable wipes for DC. They are sooo much better - they grip the poo rather than just smearing it around like wet wipes.

It's actually inspired me to make the change from toilet paper to cloth for myself too. I wet the cloth in the sink then wipe away. I should have made the change years ago, I feel so much cleaner and fresher, especially during my period. It's less painful for the piles I have post partum. Really worth trying.

DH won't try it but it's really just a mindset with what you've been brought up with.

It doesn't smell inside the wet bag.

Reusable wipes are fantastic.

Same with mooncup and reusable sanitary protection.

We should be happy that the government are finally acting on single use plastic and blocked drains.

I can't believe the accusation of people who use reusable wipes lacking personal hygiene

I asked a plumber if he could fit one of these in my downstairs loo and he said the same (he wasn't allowed to for legal reasons). Well, he could have done it in theory but it would have been extremely difficult because he'd have had to make loads of complicated changes to the pipework to make it compliant. I can't remember what exactly he said but we decided against it and I was pretty gutted.

Just put them in the flippin bin ffs a whole load of journo crap about nothing - this has been an issue and raised by water co for years. Stop flushin the buggers flushable or not - its stupid to put stuff down the loo that then becomes part of fatburgs and causes our water bills to sky rocket cos its too ewww to put the things in bin. we all might as well wipe our arses with £5 notes its all so expensive as well.

This isn't about babies she's an adult

I don’t understand how reusable products are for people with ‘lack of hygiene’.

Baby butt with wipe gets a semi dry plastic wipe smeared on bum.
Baby with flannel gets warm water with properly wet flannel, cleaned properly and then dried with dry flannel. Then cloths in hot 60 degree wash every few days and hung in the sun to dry.
Mine ‘never’ had baby butt rash. Or any urine infections which doctor said is very common in babies not wiped properly.

With reusable nappies and wipes, they are washed on hot with bio powder, hung up to dry, and you have nice clean nappies to reuse. Or you can use disposable where you have bins for 2-3 weeks festering with plastic wrapped shit in your house and garden. How can reusable be less hygienic?

Yes. For a whole weekend away. It was fine.

In terms of the OP - I would personally love it if wet wipes were banned outright along with disposable swim nappies. I don't think people will make the environmental changes the world needs unless forced to. Like with plastic bags at the supermarket.

Me too! Have never and will never use wipes. Full of chemical crap (pardon the pun) and awful for the environment. Won't even use make up remover wipes, am allergic to them.

This is fantastic news. Just a shame its not a proper ban.
Disposable wipes - especially the ones used for cleaning houses and makeup removal are a disgrace.