Flushable wipes don't break down easily enough in water, despite what manufacturers claim. This buildup causes accumulation of the wipes, and clumps of wipes can easily clogs pipes and sewer systems.

Flushable wipes are ... don’t have the technology to treat those things right now.” “When flushed, wet wipes often find their way into our waterways and eventually flow into the ocean ...

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health described fatbergs as hard clumps of fat and oil mixed with non-flushable items like sanitary products and wet wipes. These non-biodegradable masses ...

Additionally, the complaint states that often these marketed flushable wipes cost more than alternatives, including other wet wipes that are not marketed as flushable. The lawsuit pointed out ...

The City of Broken Arrow hopes to flush misconceptions about wet wipes down the drain. At least, figuratively. In a press release, Broken Arrow's Utilities Department said "flushable" wipes are ...

However, baby wipes, makeup wipes, and disinfecting wipes are classified as non-flushable products. Wet wipes make life easier when pressed for time but if consumers don’t dispose of non ...

All wet wipes sold as "flushable" in the UK have so far failed the water industry's disintegration tests, the BBC has found. Water companies say wet wipes don't break down and are causing ...

The city of Wyoming, Minn., is suing six makers of wet wipes, arguing that so-called "flushable" wipes are clogging plumbing networks and costing the city big money. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in ...

clogging up sewers and creating "massive wet-wipe reefs" in waterways, found one study. The 2020 study found even "flushable" wipes were forming "fatbergs" - chunks of solids like wipes plus ...

Susan Collins, R-Maine, stated in the McClain release. "This legislation would require manufactures to label non-flushable wet wipes, providing consumers with the information they need to safely ...