Posted on 05/08/2018 7:26:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Wet wipes, used for sticky fingers and removing eye make-up, as well as on other parts of the anatomy, could themselves be wiped out over the next couple of decades.
The government says its plan to eliminate plastic waste "includes single use products like wet wipes".
The wipes contain non-biodegradable plastic.
So manufacturers will either have to develop plastic-free wipes or consumers will have to go without.
Wet wipes are behind 93% of blockages in UK sewers, a key element of the infamous giant obstacles known as fatbergs, according to Water UK, the trade body representing all of the main water and sewerage companies in the country.
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People flushing the things are an issue this side of The Pond, too...
There were six used wet wipes next to my parking space at the grocery store yesterday. Disgusting. Probably used on a dirty bottom though didn’t see the expected stinky diaper. Nothing wrong with wet wipes. Much better than wiping their hands on the produce I’m going to buy. But take your garbage with you and dispose of it properly.
I was going to ask what the devil this has to do with sewers...but I guess I know the answer. GADS - are people not able or capable of figuring out things for themselves? Do they not have trash bags??????? If they are the same things that people use for cleaning up babies when they’re diapered, I’ve never known anyone to do anything but throw them in a trash bag and throw the trash bag in the garbage..
This is the cradle to the grave mentality, I guess...
You’ll take my wet wipes from my cold dead hands. Next they’ll take toilets away.
Yeah right
Good luck with that stupid idea guvmint
The momma gangs will string you up if you try that !
This reminds me when guvmint banned 100w light bulbs
Mexico just made 92w bulbs
Wet wipes are behind 93% of blockages in UK sewers,
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This will probably be a good regulation, and companies will come up with a biodegradable product.
First they came for the “single use” plastic bags and no one complained.
Then they came for the wet wipes and no one complained.
I can’t wait to see what happens when they go after disposable diapers...
Life would not be worth living without wet wipes.
You’ll take my wet wipes from my cold dead hands. Next they’ll take toilets away.
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What do you have against outhouses? ;-)
Companies probably have a biodegradable product, which the enviroweinies have been blocking because it requires the growing of pulp trees.
Remember, the ocean plastic bag problem went from a minor problem to a major problem because the environmental wackos objected to brown paper grocery bags.
Unfortunately it’s only necessary that 1% of the population to be idiots for a problem like this to occur. The real number is certainly much higher!
Watched a program the end of April that I downloaded from a UK torrent site titled Fatberg Autopsy - Secrets of the Sewers. London has had a terrible problem with these huge fatbergs that clog their sewers. Workers spend a large amount of time and money, removing these things in order to keep London’s sewer system working smoothly. The program showed the workers in the sewers, removing one gigantic fatberg. They transported it in pieces to a work area, and a crew slowly searched through it, to find the items that contributed to these things forming. The worst culprit was wet wipes. They tested how well the various brands of wet wipes break down over time, and discovered that many products that say they are “flushable” don’t degrade well over time, and many remain fully intact. Restaurants, which there are a large number of in London, are another cause for the fatbergs, because they dump their grease and oils down the drains, and when it solidifies, the rest of the garbage in the sewer sticks to it and gradually forms itself into a fatberg, which keeps growing all the time. They had Petri dishes in which they put samples of the fatberg to see what type of bacteria was present, and it wasn’t pretty. They even found used syringes in the fatberg, along with a whole bunch of other disgusting stuff. They also tested parts of the fatberg for drugs, and found a wide range of them present. It was a disgusting, yet interesting program.
I predict an upswing in illnesses caused by bacteria and viruses.
Problem solved? What do you think happens to the ‘thrown away’ wipes then?
Sewers of Mexico City:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlRjbV-rT-E
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