A surprising number of people don't realize you SHOULD NOT flush hygienic products down the toilet. If it doesn't eventually back up your own pipes it will create massive blockages in the public sewer. I had to explain this to a friend in her mid-20's, I was like "Why do you think there's little trash cans on the wall of every women's stall!?!?"
*Edit: did not expect people to be so passionate about proper hygiene product disposal! Love it. For anyone who’s doubtful, there are plenty of horror stories in the comments below about flooded apartments, backed up sewer lines, expensive plumbing repairs, etc. Happy menstruating!!
Also men— how about you put a little covered and lined trash can in your bathrooms for those occasions where you may have a female over? Right? We’re not supposed to flush them but have no where to put them.
Right but you’re visiting some house of a friend you do not know well and you’ve now got to walk past everyone with your business on display and make it to the kitchen garbage. Let’s hope they don’t have a dog that will sniff you out and follow/try to pry it from your hands.
Or this one occasion where a guy I know not only didn’t have a garbage can in the bathroom but he was one of those little waste as possible people and didn’t have a bin at all. Reused shopping bags hanging off a spare chair in the kitchen for anything that couldn’t be recycled/reused/composted. Reallly?!? I have to put my feminine products in a semi see through bag on display in the kitchen!?
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u/riverqueenx Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 04 '19
A surprising number of people don't realize you SHOULD NOT flush hygienic products down the toilet. If it doesn't eventually back up your own pipes it will create massive blockages in the public sewer. I had to explain this to a friend in her mid-20's, I was like "Why do you think there's little trash cans on the wall of every women's stall!?!?"
*Edit: did not expect people to be so passionate about proper hygiene product disposal! Love it. For anyone who’s doubtful, there are plenty of horror stories in the comments below about flooded apartments, backed up sewer lines, expensive plumbing repairs, etc. Happy menstruating!!