Why can’t you flush “flushable wipes”?

Question

If you can’t flush them, why are they called “flushable”?

In: 1662

Answer 1

You can flush lots of thing down the toilet. I flushed a rag by mistake (forgot in the bucket, emptied it in the toilet).

Flushable wipes are small enough that it will not block the pipes. UNLESS they are in bad shape, where it can catch on rust or roots.

Inside the city sewer however… The pipes are covered in poop. Wipes tend to stick on it. Then more poop get layed on the wipe, now it’s covered so another wipe. So you get poop/wipe/poop/wipe/poop/wipe/etc.

That sanwitch get super hard, like concrete. Then the equipment that they use normally to clean can’t remove the wipe, so it remove only the last layer of poop, and the wipe stay there. The result is that they can’t clean the pipes easilly.

Uncleaned pipes get smaller and smaller as the layers accumulate. Eventually the pipes get so blocked up that it can’t handle the normal load.