Why aren’t baby wipers our default?

  • Revan343@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Because toilet paper can be flushed, but baby wipes should go in a garbage bin?

    • cmrn@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      My roommate refuses to acknowledge that key difference. I just hope I’m out of the apartment before it becomes my problem.

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        2 months ago

        Being in an apartment, good chance it gets to the building-wide plumbing before clogging, and so wouldn’t be traced back to you. Of course, that would still leave you (and the rest of the building) without plumbing for a while whenever it actually does clog

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        2 months ago

        Proof or gtfo; being labelled ‘flushable’ is not proof, they are lying

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            2 months ago

            flushable in the us means it can go down the toilet. However, Wastewater treatment plants have to remove these from the wastewater, as they do not break down the same as poop, or in same case they don’t break down at all.

            hopefully the Aussie government has define flushable differently than the us.

            It’s very expensive problem. At least in the USA. My spouse works in waste water treatment and hates “flushable” wipes with a fiery passion.

            Us centric link, so it may not apply to you in Australia. https://wiser.eco/flushable-wipes/

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                Update: After extensive input from public wastewater bodies and industry experts including Kimberly-Clark Australia (the maker of Kleenex® Flushable Wipes), Standards Australia published a new, AU & NZ-specific, Flushable Products Standard (AS/NZS 5328:2022). The Standard details clear testing criteria that need to be met for manufacturers to use a “flushable” label in accordance with the Standard.

                We welcome the introduction of the new Standard and are proud to announce that Kleenex Flushable Wipes meet and exceed the requirements of the Australia/New Zealand Flushable Products Standard (AS/NZS 5328:2022)

  • Boozilla@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    This shit again? Pun intended. But JFC Lemmy is fucking obsessed with TP & bidets.

    Mandatory PSA: Baby wipes clog up the plumbing system. Please don’t flush those down a toilet. TP was designed to break down.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Right there with you.

      Damn kids act like adults never considered it. Motherfucking kids go read some got-damn HISTORY once in a fucking while.

      Neither existed for my grandparents.

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        I can only imagine the confusion your grandparents must have lived in, having neither toilet paper nor history.

      • lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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        2 months ago

        People in the past had to put up with a lot of shit we don’t have to today. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t take advantage on modern luxuries. Your hemorrhoids will thank you.

    • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone
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      PSA Kleenex Australia sells flushable wipes

      Update: After extensive input from public wastewater bodies and industry experts including Kimberly-Clark Australia (the maker of Kleenex® Flushable Wipes), Standards Australia published a new, AU & NZ-specific, Flushable Products Standard (AS/NZS 5328:2022). The Standard details clear testing criteria that need to be met for manufacturers to use a “flushable” label in accordance with the Standard.

      We welcome the introduction of the new Standard and are proud to announce that Kleenex Flushable Wipes meet and exceed the requirements of the Australia/New Zealand Flushable Products Standard (AS/NZS 5328:2022)

  • spittingimage@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Read some history to discover methods used before we settled on toilet paper.

    Spoiler: you’re not gonna like it.