I remember our teacher in the early 1980s sending someone to the bogs for loo roll if we needed tracing paper.
It didn't even fulfil the basic purpose of bog roll, it was seemingly designed to make a mess and cause discomfort.
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Antibacterial wipes which are biodegradable how?
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It didn't even fulfil the basic purpose of bog roll, it was seemingly designed to make a mess and cause discomfort.
They still block drains!
I tell my customers to keep using and I will see them in a few weeks!
Pee, Poo and Paper should only go down a toilet.
Andy
I tell my customers to keep using and I will see them in a few weeks!
Pee, Poo and Paper should only go down a toilet.
Andy
It's often misleading though. A pair of jeans is made from cotton, so is bio-degradable. If you bury them in the ground they'll eventually decompose, but this will take many years. If they broke down faster then they'd dissolve in the washing machine.
Cotton and other "natural" fibres are every bit as capable of blocking drains as plastic fibres.
Toilet paper dissolves pretty much instantly. You can use a foaming cleaning spray with it if you want a truly harmless wet wipe. You can buy any foaming spray, e.g. face wash and use that. B&M sells one for £1. Use it as-is, then refill it with mild handwash mixed 50/50 with water...
Some other products are available marketed for this purpose but they tend to be expensive, e.g...
Cotton and other "natural" fibres are every bit as capable of blocking drains as plastic fibres.
Toilet paper dissolves pretty much instantly. You can use a foaming cleaning spray with it if you want a truly harmless wet wipe. You can buy any foaming spray, e.g. face wash and use that. B&M sells one for £1. Use it as-is, then refill it with mild handwash mixed 50/50 with water...
Some other products are available marketed for this purpose but they tend to be expensive, e.g...
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Plastic means it will bend, but what we call plastic is either made from animals or plants, be it oil, coal, or wood, it is the same source, and I know coal degrades once it has been mined, but it is quite old to start with. So being made from cotton, or wool, so not mean it will break down fast enough not to cause a problem.
But the main problem with plastics is when they are recycled, and turned into tyres, which deposit fine partials on the road, which are washed into surface water drains.
Do we ban recycling to save the planet?
But the main problem with plastics is when they are recycled, and turned into tyres, which deposit fine partials on the road, which are washed into surface water drains.
Do we ban recycling to save the planet?
You're quoting the original definition of plastic which, while being technically correct, is not what most people mean nowadays. What we're discussing are synthetic fibres, usually derived chemically from oil.
Putting recycled plastic into tyres is a very recent niche thing. It's not how most are made so is irrelevant.
Plastic recycling hasn't really ever existed, at least not at scale. It's mostly marketing put out by the companies that manufacture plastics, as their way of justifying making disposable products from the stuff that they sell.
The post-consumer recycling that does exist is normally very much down-cycling, e.g. making fork lift pallets from plastic bottles. Really low grade stuff.
Any plastic-based OR plant fibre wipes flushed down a toilet will end up either in the sea or will get pulled out by some sort of filtering and landfilled.
Putting recycled plastic into tyres is a very recent niche thing. It's not how most are made so is irrelevant.
Plastic recycling hasn't really ever existed, at least not at scale. It's mostly marketing put out by the companies that manufacture plastics, as their way of justifying making disposable products from the stuff that they sell.
The post-consumer recycling that does exist is normally very much down-cycling, e.g. making fork lift pallets from plastic bottles. Really low grade stuff.
Any plastic-based OR plant fibre wipes flushed down a toilet will end up either in the sea or will get pulled out by some sort of filtering and landfilled.
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I remember carefully writing on plastic bags what was in them, and storing in the loft, and when I came to get the stuff back out, they fell into dust, far better today with paper bags.
Today I buy bin liners, years ago I used old plastic bags, so to try and reduce use of plastic, the governments have done the reverse.
Today I buy bin liners, years ago I used old plastic bags, so to try and reduce use of plastic, the governments have done the reverse.
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