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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The subject of my next rant is Garbage Disposals....
They’re more hygienic than tp, nobody who uses them is going to give them up.
Disposal in trash cans is fairly simple to learn.
I would hate to see toilets tweaked with garbage disposal units down in there.
But outlaw wipes? No.
IDIOTS!!! An idiot solution to an idiot caused problem. Our cities had sewer systems design and installed 100 years ago. Then, all of a sudden, an idiot declares low flow toilets MUST be installed and sold. SO... no water to flush all the crap through the lines. NOW, cities smell like piss and feces, more so, because the lines are stagnant and easily clogged with products that were just fine. SO, let’s ban the products. Next there will be a toilet paper ration.
Joist moisten a NY Times. All its good for.
JUST moisten a NY Times
We’ve lived in our current apartment for nine years. For the first five years, we experienced constant backing-up of our kitchen sink. Finally, management hired a real plumber, instead of sending the usual on-site maintenance guys.
The plumber found a sponge-y thing deep in the drain that had been causing all the years of problems. It wasn’t from us - we were very careful about the drain. And we haven’t had any problem now in three or four years, since he fixed it.
I think when people live in apartments, they don’t think about what they flush/push down the drain.
It definitely gave me a new appreciation for knowledgeable plumbers!
Yep, they don't handle wipes and tampons all that well either.
I’ve always considered them to be like paper towels - they go in the trash can.
How about flushing the city council parasites and their douchebag boss
They’re not outlawing wipes - they just want them to meet certain standards. We wouldn’t want our electrical wiring to fall short of the best standards available.
I think the problem is they sell “flushable” wipes, that don’t really dissolve. I think the city wants to ban the sale of those since people see it and think they are OK.
Nah, we’re Americans, damn it, and we’ll flush what we please, then bitch about the problems it causes.
There is literally nothing that liberals don’t want to control.
Well, even if you had a ‘high-flush’ toilet - where does the stuff go that you flush down?
This isn’t about your personal toilet and the drains to/from your house; it’s also about what happens to the *stuff* when it travels along the pipeway to the treatment plant.
These things are causing major, expensive problems in the system. (A hundred years ago, we didn’t have baby wipes and tampons.)
Ultimately, you pay for the problems, out of your pocket or through your taxes.
It just seems to me to be a good idea to encourage practices that result in efficiency. A sewage system is like a highway - you have to have a license to drive, and you have to learn the rules in order to get the license in the first place. Without that system, all kinds of crap would happen (no pun intended ;-)
LoL.
You are correct.
I work in the water/wastewater industry as a sales engineer.
“Disposable” wipes are the bane of the wastewater industry. They not only clog pipes but also pumps. (I’ve seen wipes go through a grinder/communitor and still come out in one piece.)
This debris gets into the plant and fouls all kinds of equipment.
The costs of repairs and equipment replacement is hundreds of millions of dollars per year for municipalities and homeowners.
A study was done in Australia were they determined that wipes were costing water utilites $15 million per year. That is a country with a population of only 23 million.
Original sewers were designed with a certain slope that ran on a predictable flow of water. They flushed themselves for the most part. The low flows don’t wash out the tubes.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Low-flow-toilets-cause-a-stink-in-SF-2457645.php
It’s not a simple matter of simply upgrading. It was a politically caused problem. Feel good about low flow toilets while the entire system backs up. This is like the ethanol mandates ruining engines. A politician gets bought off, mandates we all put that garbage in our automobiles, and it ruins the engine.
Yes, a bit off topic from wipes, but if there was the back flow of the water to push them through this wouldn’t be much of an issue.
I think you’re mixing apples and oranges. See post 36, regarding treatment plants.
Funny story: A friened of mine worked in a sewage treatment plant when some government bureaucrat in a suit came in to do an inspection. As he showed the man around and told him how everything was working my friend walked on, then realized the bureaucrat was not right behind. HE was still out on the walkway looking down into the stirring mess when he spotted something, looked closer, and lost his balance! He tried to regain his footing, then tossed his brief case, grabbed his nose and fell right into the mess!
The joke was, “Do you know what sound a government bureaucrat makes when he splashes in a pool of s**t?
“BA-LOOP—PA!”
I guess I’m slow....
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