Wipes Hurt Pipes
Wipes appeal to a large and broad market and can be used for a variety of purposes from household cleaning to personal hygiene. Companies heavily advertise their "flushable" wipes, which come across as convenient and cheap. But plumbers make a lot of house calls that involve clogged toilets, backed up sewer lines, and flooded basem*nts due to nasty clogs.
The most popular perpetrators are baby wipes and other non-dispersible paper materials, like facial tissues (make up removing wipes), household cleaning wipes, cotton balls, Q-tips, tampons, pads, dental floss, non-flushable paper towels,and other trash.
Most baby wipes and similar materials aren’t designed to be flushed—“flushable” products like wipes do not readily disperse upon flushing and actually remain in a solid state while traveling through the sewer system. They may clog your pipes at home resulting in costly visits from your plumber. They may get caught in the public wastewater system, which can cause thousands of dollars worth of damage to regional pumping equipment leading to higher sewer bills for us all. While many of these products might masquerade as “flushable” and “sewer friendly”, don’t be fooled!
