• AstralPath@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      God no! lmao that’s almost as bad as that podcast guy that admitted he’d catch his own poop and gently drop it in the toilet so it doesn’t splash.

      You can get plumbing-safe wet wipes (baby wipes, basically). They work perfectly well.

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        11 months ago

        plumbing-safe wet wipes

        That’s usually a lie. But as long as it’s a rent house, it’s fine.

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          11 months ago

          they also cause millions of dollars in damages by clogging large scale sewer lines

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        There’s no such thing as flushable wet wipes. They might not clog your particular pipes but they do not break down in water. They can’t because then they wouldn’t be able to be wet. They contribute to massive clogs in the sewer systems that people have to go down and break up honestly it should be illegal to sell them

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          It shouldn’t be illegal to sell wet wipes (I assume you meant the flushable variety), just make it illegal to flush it down

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            it should probably be illegal to falsely advertise them as “flushable”

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        There’s no such thing as truly flushable wipes. They’re the bane of plumbers everywhere… Actually more the bane of people having to pay the plumber bill at some stage. A quick google will confirm this.

        Think of it… To be flushable they need to disintegrate in water. But they’re wet wipes so they are always wet… Yet they’re not disintegrating. Wipes which disintegrate in water is just toilet paper.