# To flush or not to flush... your tampons

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-flush-or-not-to-flush-your-tampons/551915>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 29, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-flush-or-not-to-flush-your-tampons/551915 "2010-08-29T20:54:21Z")\
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**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:** [August 31, 2010, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-flush-or-not-to-flush-your-tampons/551915/75 "2010-08-31T14:10:40Z")

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> [@Magiver](#):
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> These statements are in direct conflict with each other.

The two statements where I say that \*I treat tissues like I treat tampons \*are in conflict with each other? :dubious:

> [@robby](#):
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> As a civil engineer who works for a public sewer utility, I implore you to NOT flush tampons. [snip] Here’s just one [example](http://www.penntwp-ma.com/) of a sewer utility that prohibits the flushing of tampons

Anybody who doesn’t want me to flush my tampon menstrual waste had damn well better request it. \*That \*sewer utility did; so can the others. I’m not going to dump them in the trash just because someone \*might \*have a system that they could clog.

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