Bottle of Tide sprung a leak -- safe to dump it down the drain?(need answer fast!)

Factual Questions
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Thread title says it all. I had a bottle of Tide spring a leak. It’s supposed to be phosphate-free. I don’t really have any any good containers to pour the rest of it into. What should I do with it?

2

Plastic garbage bag. Maybe double up to make sure.
It’s * probably * safe to just flush down the drain, but if there’s any sort of obstruction, you might get suds in unexpected places.

3

Ugh. What an obvious answer. Thank you.

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Screw the cap on good and tight, and turn it upside down. When you get another suitable empty container, put the detergent in that. No need to waste good Tide down the drain.

5

If not too late:

Place it in the plastic bag for now.
Dump out your gallon jug of spring water
OR
hurry out to your local grocer for a gallon of water.
Dump out the 99 cents of water and refill the water jug with the $14.99 Tide.

6

Duct tape.

2-gallon freezer bag.

7

Considering that your washing machine empties the water along with the used Tide (or any other detergent for that matter) into the water system after each load, I’d assume it’s fine to dump it.

8

Well, you’d be wrong, since the detergent from your laundry is well mixed with water. Pouring detergent down the kitchen sink could cause a reaction with fats there, causing a clog. It would have to be well diluted, by running the water constantly during the dumping.

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I’d seriously hope he’d have enough common sense to:

A) Not pour detergent down a drain he uses to clean his dishes, rinses his cups, etc.

B) Have water running to dilute the detergent (which can upwards of 80% in some brands, unaware as to Tide’s ratio).

Here, let me be specific so no one calls me out on a minute and trivial details:

Find your least used drain, turn the water on, pour the contents of the Tide bottle into the drain - preferably into the stream of the flowing water, allow bottle to empty, allow water to flow for at least 30 seconds to flush any reminiscence, turn off drain.

That work for you?

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That’s questionable.

If he’s seriously considering dumping $10-$15 worth of Tide down the drain, rather than just pouring it into any handy container, like a bucket or empty milk jug or even a baking dish, you’ve got to wonder about common sense’.