Don't flush wet wips, esp into digesters.

[saveasteading]

So long plastic wet wipes - but should we be flushing the new ones

 

I'm amazed they were still being sold. 

 

But even paper ones take years to break down so they shouldn't be flushed away to sewers, and especially not to a digester.... perhaps this is why some need to be pumped out annually.

 

It's ne of those things though.... how much of the popuation care? So it needs legislation.

 

BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdjr4gk7v38o

[ProDave]

Wet wipes seem only of use to me to carry in your pocket to use when you are out and need to clean your hands where no wash basin is available.  then you treat it as any other waste and keep it until you find a litter bin.

 

I have never found a use for them in a house with running water and wash basins.

 

Clearly I live a sheltered life.

[BotusBuild]

Nappy changes probably the biggest use @ProDave.

It is easy to have a ready supply of wipes held together in a handy plastic (!) pack as you traverse this hideous job.

Shouldn't happen (wet wipe use) but it does 🫩

[ProDave]

3 minutes ago, BotusBuild said:

Nappy changes probably the biggest use @ProDave.

It is easy to have a ready supply of wipes held together in a handy plastic (!) pack as you traverse this hideous job.

Shouldn't happen (wet wipe use) but it does 🫩

It's nearly 20 years since I changed a nappy, but then the used wet wipes got added to the contents of the nappy and the whole lot wrapped up and bagged for disposal in a bin.

 

Next someone will tell me people flush used nappies down the loo?

[saveasteading]

16 minutes ago, ProDave said:

people flush used nappies down the loo?

If you search that article and link to a small film , you will see some surprise flushed items.

 

And it says the ban is 18 months away!

The caring shops could stop stocking them now.

[saveasteading]

30 minutes ago, BotusBuild said:

Shouldn't happen (wet wipe use) but it does 🫩

And the paper ones don't break down fof a year or 2.  I guess they are woven like J cloths, so are no softer than cotton... and will still clog drains and treatment tanks.

Out with the nappy has to be correct. 

For trade use, eg mastic wiping, have a bag to hand?

 

Toilet paper is made of loose fibres collected on a mesh so are not woven or even tangled, so come apart again.. I've been to the factory... (the glamour of my career) cardboard boxes to loo rolls.

[Oz07]

I think different cultures have a hard time understanding this problem. 

[BotusBuild]

2 hours ago, ProDave said:

the whole lot wrapped up and bagged for disposal in a bin.

We did the same

[Pocster]

Nope ! 3 times I’ve seen raw sewage pouring over various gardens due to wet wipes .

[ProDave]

So because people cannot be educated to use wet wipes properly and put them in a bin not down the loo, we ban wet wipes.

[saveasteading]

40 minutes ago, ProDave said:

people cannot be educated

Exactly so. Hence fines and points for traffic offences.