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NYC may ban flushable wet wipes
FOX5NY.COM ^ | Oct 13, 2016 | FOX5NY.COM Staff

Posted on 10/13/2016 5:02:30 PM PDT by libstripper

NEW YORK (FOX5NY) - The New York City Council's environmental protection committee will consider a bill next week that would fine any store that sells wet wipes often used for infants and adult personal hygiene unless they meet stiff new regulations.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hygene; sanitation; stupiity
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This is a really shitty idea.
1 posted on 10/13/2016 5:02:30 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: libstripper

Is the NYT even good enough to replace wipes?


2 posted on 10/13/2016 5:04:13 PM PDT by proust (Trump / Pence 2016!)
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To: libstripper

Flush out your mouth.


3 posted on 10/13/2016 5:04:49 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: libstripper

“Stiff” regulations? That ain’t the idea, Brother.


4 posted on 10/13/2016 5:06:23 PM PDT by CaptainPhilFan (islam is the worship of Satan)
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To: libstripper

Because wiping your @ss with the New York Times is clogging up the toilets?

*SNORT*


5 posted on 10/13/2016 5:07:22 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: libstripper

Man in NY City alley: “Psst! Hey buddy, ya wanna buy some wet wipes?”


6 posted on 10/13/2016 5:10:10 PM PDT by mkmensinger
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To: libstripper

They should know.

The NYC Council knows how to be the best ‘wipes’.


7 posted on 10/13/2016 5:10:13 PM PDT by bakeneko
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To: libstripper

I will just buy them elsewhere and flush them when (if) I’m ever in NY


8 posted on 10/13/2016 5:10:16 PM PDT by boknows
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To: libstripper

Wipe with yer left hand. It’s good enuff for the pigscrewing pedophile prophet moe-ham-head.


9 posted on 10/13/2016 5:10:23 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: libstripper

New York HATES Babies and Old People!

Flee! Run for your lives! Move to Wyoming!

Except you mid-30’s, ‘producers’ who produce NOTHING but Tax Revenue for your state! Don’t you peeps go ANYWHERE! Just take the current Beat Down that the LibTards send your way.

Paper or Plastic? Or is THAT also outlawed?

*Rolleyes*


10 posted on 10/13/2016 5:13:01 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: CaptainPhilFan; libstripper

I don’t have a problem with something like this. Most people don’t think about where their....stuff...goes when they flush the toilet.

In my young salad days, I dated a microbiologist-in-training, and part of his graduate work dealt with sewage treatment. He took me one day to the Blue Plains plant in DC.

It was kind of amazing to see how it all worked. At the time, he told me that one of the major problems they had came from folks flushing condoms.


11 posted on 10/13/2016 5:13:31 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: dynachrome
Hold it... pigs are okay.... the goats have the social challenge...

Wipe with yer left hand. It’s good enuff for the pigscrewing pedophile prophet moe-ham-head. .

Sure would not want to be a young goat in Turkey....

12 posted on 10/13/2016 5:17:52 PM PDT by ptsal
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To: libstripper

Anything to make life more difficult for parents and caregivers. Thanks!


13 posted on 10/13/2016 5:20:45 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: libstripper

Anything to make life more difficult for parents and caregivers. Thanks!


14 posted on 10/13/2016 5:21:25 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Jamestown1630

The local sewage treatment plan ought to be a required field trip for HS students in urban schools.

A nearby city bans the use of plastic drinking straws by food vendors during their yearly week long rodeo because apparently too many of them end up in the storm drain where they create dams and blockages that cost serious money to remove.


15 posted on 10/13/2016 5:55:05 PM PDT by Valpal1 (If the police can t solve a problem with violence, they ll find a way to fix it with brute force)
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To: libstripper

In other news, shares in Amazon.com and Walmartonline went up again.


16 posted on 10/13/2016 5:55:38 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines (#nevertrump is really #readyforhillary)
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To: Jamestown1630
I don’t have a problem with something like this. Most people don’t think about where their....stuff...goes when they flush the toilet.

The use of baby wipes amongst adults has grown exponentially in recent years. And despite the "do not flush" admonitions on the package, they get flushed, where they play havoc on our sewage systems.

Notice how toilet paper dissolves when it get wet? It's designed that way. Baby wipes, on the other hand, are damn near indestructible.

This isn't just about busybody New York liberals. It's a real problem in need of a solution.

17 posted on 10/13/2016 6:00:04 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Valpal1

Yes.

I don’t believe in ‘anthropogenic’ climate change; but I definitely worry about pollution.

(I think field trips to local family farms should be required, too. Kids need to know where their food comes from, and something about the people who bring it to their tables. They couldn’t ‘see’ much at a big industrial farm; but at a family farm, they’d get a clue.)


18 posted on 10/13/2016 6:03:43 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: libstripper

They have been banned in my building. One clogged-up pipe can destroy a line of 20 apartments, and cause tens of thousands in water damage.


19 posted on 10/13/2016 6:04:00 PM PDT by proxy_user
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Regular baby wipes are a major problem for sewage treatment plants. They shouldn’t ban the flushable kind but it is quite reasonable to demand that these products meet requirements for dissolvability, etc.


20 posted on 10/13/2016 6:07:14 PM PDT by wideminded
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