# Don't flush tampons you moron! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 31, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-flush-tampons-you-moron/552180 "2010-08-31T20:52:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 109
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-flush-tampons-you-moron/552180/109 "2010-09-02T05:53:52Z")
> [@torie](#): > > I have no frame of reference for how heavy my period is compared to others, but I think mine is pretty hardcore and I do ok with a pad. Granted, I’m changing it every 3 hours on the first couple of days, but they work ok for me. A pad that you change every three hours isn’t that heavy, compared to some of the women here, who do shit like one to two of the heaviest tampons backed up with one of the heaviest/longest pads and \*still \*change that shit _every hour_. (It usually comes up in discussions about things like hysterectomies and endometrial ablation.) > [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > The person being pitted, and others like her, have explicitly said they would _not_ use a trash can Are you retarded, or just illiterate? Here’s a whole string of quotes for you: > [@To flush or not to flush... your tampons](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-flush-or-not-to-flush-your-tampons/551915/62): > > If you have a septic tank and/or pipes that can’t handle them, it’s \*your job \*to warn me, at which point I’ll politely dispose of them in whatever way you request (by default, wrapped in toilet paper and deposited in the trash). > [@To flush or not to flush... your tampons](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-flush-or-not-to-flush-your-tampons/551915/66): > > In an emergency situation, I treat them like tampons–if I’m asked to dispose of those in a wastebin, I do the same with anything else that isn’t toilet paper or bodily wastes. > [@To flush or not to flush... your tampons](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-flush-or-not-to-flush-your-tampons/551915/75): > > Anybody who doesn’t want me to flush my tampon menstrual waste had damn well better request it. > [@To flush or not to flush... your tampons](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-flush-or-not-to-flush-your-tampons/551915/81): > > I said that because they don’t break down like toilet paper, _they should be treated like tampons_–i.e., pitched in the garbage if there’s a notice not to flush anything other than bodily wastes and TP, or flushed if there isn’t one. […] If a sewer system can’t handle anything but bodily wastes and TP, they need to make that clear _for that system_. Otherwise, I’m flushing reasonable things like tampons, small amounts of tissue or paper towels in an emergency, etc. > [@To flush or not to flush... your tampons](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-flush-or-not-to-flush-your-tampons/551915/84): > > And, like I’ve said repeatedly, I have no problem disposing of my tampons in the trash _if you explicitly tell me it’s a problem for that area_. > [@To flush or not to flush... your tampons](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-flush-or-not-to-flush-your-tampons/551915/116): > > Anyone who continues to flush tampons in a bathroom where (a) they’ve been told, either personally or through signage, that the toilet/plumbing/septic tank can’t handle tampons and (b) there is a receptacle provided to dispose of them in is being very rude. And here’s another highly relevant one you probably missed: > [@To flush or not to flush... your tampons](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-flush-or-not-to-flush-your-tampons/551915/132): > > You know what I just did? I called the [Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District](http://v3.mmsd.com/ContactUs.aspx). I was connected to a very nice man there named Bill Graffin (414-225-2077 is his direct dial, he tells me) who was kind enough to speak with me for a few minutes and answer my questions. I told him that I was having a debate with someone as to whether or not “flushable” tampons are actually flushable, or whether they will cause clogs or damage the system in some way. His response–and I quote–was that they are “not an issue.” **Not. An. Issue.** For the local systems, he said, maybe, and in the laterals, but \*our \*sewers are bigger and deeper and they cause no problems there. > > So I’m going to go \*right on ahead \*gleefully flushing my tampons at any location that doesn’t make the minimal amount of effort necessary to inform me if \*their \*toilets and/or connection to the main lines (laterals) can’t handle tampons. That’s right, bitch. You just got fucking _owned_. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-flush-tampons-you-moron/552180)._