2.28.2008

Wrong!

Yah...this is how you end up with sewage backed up in your yard or your basement or your bathroom. I can't *count* the number of women I've talked to about this who didn't even know you aren't supposed to flush your cotton canoes.

But you are not.
We literally have tens of thousands of these beach whistles lying in the rip-rap around the lagoons. And tens of thousands more get screened out of the composted biosolids when we dredge the lagoons. Ladies, these aren't biodegradable and belong in the trashcan, not the toilet. The basics of what should get flushed distills down to this: if you haven't eaten it, or used it to wipe off something you've eaten, it goes in the trash. That also applies to the device that these applicators are designed to insert. Wrap 'em with a wad of Charmin if you are embarrassed by them, but please, please, please don't flush 'em.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Do women really flush 'em?? I have always known not to. Toilets aren't garbage disposals. NOT that I put them down the kitchen sink either! ;)

Um, what is a "beach whistle"?

kj