If you can’t flush them, why are they called “flushable”?
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Here’s the thing, you *probably* CAN flush them, but as a better safe than sorry, you probably shouldn’t.
Sewage companies/workers etc have complained a lot in recent years about having to deal with major blockages caused by wipes in the wake of “flushable” wipes hitting the market. Here’s the thing: individual wipes aren’t labeled. So how do they know whether the clogs are caused by “flushable” wipes? There are plenty of non-flushable still on the market. I have some that I know are definitely labeled explicitly as do not flush.
I also know I’ve seen people demonstrate flushable wipes by sticking them in water for 30 seconds and then swirling them and they turn into shreds of nothing. But of course there’s a LOT of flushables out there, maybe some of them don’t break down as well?
There’s also probably a decent number of people out there who may have started buying wipes not realizing that not *all* are flushable and started flushing them creating a problem.
So, honestly you can *probably* flush those flushable wipes and be fine. But it’s hard to know for sure. Which is why the mantra has become “don’t flush any of them ever”. And honestly, there’s probably a trash can in your bathroom anyway. Is it really that big of a deal to just toss em in the trash instead?
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