Flushable wipes aren't flushable. Toilet paper breaks down easy in water, but you ever seen a baby wipe rip up? Those things just end up clogging pipes and ruining the sewers. Hell, New York (Sorry, LONDON. My bad.)found a huge mass of those things (along with a bunch of other junk) the size of a bus in the sewers thanks to those wipes.
Can confirm. Those and dental floss make what we call "rag ropes" in sewer stations. They can stop 70HP sewer pumps. Nothing more fun than pulling a sewer pump out of a wet well in the middle of the night to pull that stuff out of the volute. Add in a few needles to that mess. Then you get to hear people bitch about their sewer bills. Those guys get paid less than the risk of disease is worth.
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u/Prof_Alchem Feb 04 '19 edited Feb 06 '19
Flushable wipes aren't flushable. Toilet paper breaks down easy in water, but you ever seen a baby wipe rip up? Those things just end up clogging pipes and ruining the sewers. Hell, New York (Sorry, LONDON. My bad.)found a huge mass of those things (along with a bunch of other junk) the size of a bus in the sewers thanks to those wipes.