The toilet is not a bin. Most of our sewers were built long ago — long before plastic products that can clog them and overflow into our homes, streets and seas.
Flushed pollution primarily consists of twelve usual suspects — cotton buds, baby wipes, household cleaning wipes, tampons, tampon applicators, facial wipes, cleansing pads, cigarettes, plasters, nappies, menstrual pads and cotton wool.
Eleven of them contain plastic, and they take hundreds of years to biodegrade.
Plastic stems clog pumps and end up on beaches.
Don't disintegrate. They're the leading blockage culprit.
Even "flushable" ones cling together in pipes.
Designed to absorb, not break down.
Saturated with oils and chemicals.
Filters are plastic. They don't go anywhere.
Plastic film and adhesive — straight to the bin.
Even the "flushable" liners don't break down.
Clumps and traps fats — a fatberg starter kit.
" At WSC we deal with thousands of sewer blockages a year. All of them are caused by items that should never be flushed. Even products labelled 'flushable' do not disintegrate like toilet paper.
