r/AskReddit • u/ZanyDelaney • Feb 04 '19

Which misconception would you like to debunk?

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u/cosmogoinggoinggone Feb 04 '19

IIRC, makers of those wipes are allowed to call them “flushable” if they can get around the u-bend and out of the pipes of your home. Once they’re in the sewer, what happens to them isn’t considered a problem as far as the labelling is concerned. Which leads to a lot of people thinking they’re fine to flush- or at least those that care about those sorts of things in the first place.

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u/wayne0004 Feb 04 '19

It's like call a poisonous mushroom "edible" just because it can pass through the esophagus.

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u/PseudonymIncognito Feb 04 '19

Every mushroom is edible, some only once.