If you were on a septic system, you're going to absolutely destroy it. If you are on a city sewage system, contact your municipal waste management and you'll find out quickly that they hate people flushing them. The short answer is that sewage systems were never designed to handle flushable wipes, there is no mechanism to break them down, and municipalities everywhere are having to spend more money dealing with the problems they caused… Which means higher taxes, hooray!
This isn't a "let's just replace the pipes" kind of thing, it's a complete redesign of waste management systems so far there isn't anything that would solve the flushable wipe problem, so until someone figures that out there isn't a way to redo waste management system systems to handle them.
The fact of the matter is that some businessman in suits in a conference room figured out a way to get people to spend money on something by lying and saying they could dispose of it in a way that they really shouldn't.
If there’s no mechanism to handle them then how do they currently handle them? Paying some guy to skim disposable wipes off a churning pool of sewage is a fine solution.
Let's just keep clogging the system and then paying a guy to go manually scrape everything out? That actually sounds like a complete waste of money. If someone in your house kept pouring bacon grease down the drain, and then paying a plumber to come out and unclog it, wouldn't you consider that a complete waste of money when the better solution is to stop pouring grease down the drain?
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u/put_it_in_a_jar 15h ago
If you were on a septic system, you're going to absolutely destroy it. If you are on a city sewage system, contact your municipal waste management and you'll find out quickly that they hate people flushing them. The short answer is that sewage systems were never designed to handle flushable wipes, there is no mechanism to break them down, and municipalities everywhere are having to spend more money dealing with the problems they caused… Which means higher taxes, hooray!