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2016/10/13 19:10:29
Subject: NY City Council comitteee to consider proposal to ban flushable wet wipes.
So, apparently those little wet wipes mothers use on their babies and old people use for hemorrhoid relief are to be banned from sale in NY City should this proposal make its way into law.
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.
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.
The committee is set to meet next Wednesday to discuss amending the administrative code in relation to the so-called non-woven disposable products.
The wipes have been found to clog the city's aging sewer pipes. The city's Department of Environmental Protection says the wipes often combine with other materials and create an impassible knot in the pipes.
Dave Rousse, president of the Association of the Non-woven Fabrics Industry, told the Post that the flushable wipes are designed to start degrading as soon as they go down the drain.
"The bill is misguided," Rousse said.
Violators could face fines of up to $2,500.
Some critics say smaller stores will be hurt because customers will take to the Internet to order the wipes instead of buying them in local stores.
Now this might not seem like an issue if you are not a parent or don't have hemorrhoids, however I recently discovered the joy of wet wipes after a bout of... let's call it Moctezuma's revenge. I immediately noticed how much better they are at maintaining hygene. In fact, after that unfortunate experience, I am a belieber when it comes to these wonderful inventions. Famous people like Will Smith, Will.i.am, Terrence Howard, Bruno Mars, and others, are hot on this trend, too. Still, this ban isn't entirely an idea dreamed up by kooks unlike some previous efforts (big soda, vaping, donating food to homeless shelters).
Here is a related article discussing the wet wipe issue and the effect it is having on municipal sewer systems.
And here is a video with Adam Conover about wet wipes. While Adam makes some salient points, my own experience contradicts his statements about wet wipes not improving hygene.
So, for those of you not personally invested in the raging US & UK political threads, what are your thoughts?
Potty humor incoming in 3... 2... 1...
2016/10/13 19:13:27
Subject: NY City Council comitteee to consider proposal to ban flushable wet wipes.
I am very sympathetic to the effect on our sewers and the poor slobs who have to go in and deal with it but I'm also very attached to my wipes and really don't want to go back to the way things were.
At this point, I'm hoping companies who make these things can figure out a way to make them more sewer friendly somehow. I don't think making them more biodegradable will work because they're essentially sitting in liquid in the package they come in. It's the wet part of wet wipes.
Maybe instead of banning them NYC could just put a sales tax that goes directly to sewer maintenance?
2016/10/13 19:43:07
Subject: Re:NY City Council comitteee to consider proposal to ban flushable wet wipes.
I used tons of wet wipes when my two kids were little. Almost no wipes went in the toilet, they mostly got wrapped up into the diaper and then into the trash.
Parenthood without wet wipes sounds like an extra layer of hell.
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2016/10/13 20:43:19
Subject: NY City Council comitteee to consider proposal to ban flushable wet wipes.
As a firm believer in impeccable butt cleanliness I demand scientists find an alternative for the sake of humanity. At home I wet some toilet paper. But on the road I need my wet wipes.
2016/10/13 21:07:45
Subject: NY City Council comitteee to consider proposal to ban flushable wet wipes.
A lot of middle eastern countries have sewer systems that can't even cope with normal tissue, never mind wet wipes. The bin full of poo rags that greats you every time you need to go is rather unpleasant. But it's less unpleasant than having crap swimming around your ankles by overwhelming the sewage system with things that aren't supposed to go down there.
Aircraft need those restrictions too. No wipes or sanitary products down the pan please cause it screws up the internals. The difference being I used to be in the position that if one of the aircrew did decide to ignore the rules we could outright decide not to fix the toilet, throw a rubber glove at the nearest aircrew and tell them it was their problem. There's nothing like the prospect of spending 10 hours confined with twenty other people in a metal tube at 30,000 feet with no waste facilities to persuade people that their sensitive bum pieces be damned, follow the rules or the plumbing breaks.
2016/10/13 21:58:29
Subject: NY City Council comitteee to consider proposal to ban flushable wet wipes.
As always, the best solutions are the simplest: Hold your poop in until you feel like you're going to pop, and then when you do go, push as hard as you can. The ensuing splash should give your paper all the moisture you need.
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2016/10/14 06:04:46
Subject: NY City Council comitteee to consider proposal to ban flushable wet wipes.
I mean an outright ban is probably a bit far, but wet wipes really are a problem.
If companies would stop advertising them as flushable even when they're not and people would just bin them like a parent would a nappy (preferably in a scented bag) then all would be right in the world for responsible wet wipe users.
2016/10/14 07:00:40
Subject: NY City Council comitteee to consider proposal to ban flushable wet wipes.
BobtheInquisitor wrote: I, too, believe in wiping wetly. I guess they'll have to start going in the trash can...
ewww.
In most countries I've lived in the sewers can't handle ordinary TP much less other things like wet wipes. So you keep a small covered wastebasket next to the toilet.
Somehow we endure.
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2016/10/14 07:36:52
Subject: NY City Council comitteee to consider proposal to ban flushable wet wipes.
These things are not flushable, either there should be a ban on calling them flushable or they should be banned.
The German sewer system (I have heard from a Toilet Paper technician) is more robust than the American system and here we do not have 'flushable' wet wipes.
