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 ;-)
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.