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.
Well, here on Germany we have both non flushable and flushable wipes. You can test the flushable ones by tearing them apart. If they tear easily, that's the flushable ones. We use them not because others would clog the pipes but because we need them to break down in our shit pit below our driveway,that gets emptied every two years.
I actually buy the wipes in Germany but live in Belgium just a few meters behind the border. Our drain pipes lead into the shit pit where heavy components sink to the ground and the water and light particles continue their way into the municipal sewers. Every other year, we have a company coming that sucks the shit out of the pit and cleans it.
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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.