1.) I never said that tissues can be used as an interim tampon, I said they can be used in lieu of toilet paper. (Nobody else talked about using tissues for tampons, either–at least nobody I was responding to. **kushiel **was talking about it as a TP substitute.)
2.) 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. That’s a 100% consistent POV. It’s not one you *agree *with, but it’s consistent.
3.) 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.
Oh please. Cigarette butts are regular trash and lit ones are dangerous. Used tampons contain bodily fluids and can’t start a fire, and they won’t cause damage to a properly designed and maintained system.
The day you are willing to follow me everywhere and keep my used tampons in a ziploc bag in your pocket is the day I’ll start doing that.
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and guess you’re male. Do you carry a ziploc bag around for particularly epic shits? After all, you might clog someone’s toilet with them! It’s just your own waste–I don’t see why you can’t scoop it up out of the toilet into a bag and bring it home to dispose of it yourself later. :rolleyes:
No, a tampon is not a “reasonable thing”. You have been told so by plumbers and a city septic system civil engineer. In the United States of Decaying Infrastructure you do not and can not know anything about the quality of the sewage system between your toilet and the sewage treatment plant. The people who do know have told you not to.
Exactly how many bathrooms have you been in that have a toilet but lack a trash can? You don’t put it in your purse, you put it in the trash. Wrap the ziplock bag in a paper towel or toilet paper.
It is clear you have reach the point in the discussion where you either have to acknowledge that you were wrong, or dive into the rich pool of possibilities afforded to us by the world of logical fallacies.
Again, you have been told that something is a very bad idea by experts, by people who deal with the results of your selfish and bad behavior.
Following up on my own post, I mentioned earlier in the thread that I recently cut out the cast iron waste stack in my brother’s house. The cast iron sections are still in the back yard, and I took the camera out there and took a shot of the first piece I grabbed.
I’ve had a couple of people tell me that *some *systems can’t handle it. I have yet to see any evidence that this is a universal problem. I live in a relatively new building in a big city. I have even toured a waste treatment center here, and I’ve *never *heard that flushing tampons is a problem where I live. I even just did a Google search for a couple of sets of terms that could turn up some info relevant to me, and the closest I came was something about tampon applicators, which are *not *supposed to be flushed and I never do.
If *your sytem *can’t handle flushing tampons, which are at least *in theory *designed to be flushed, it’s *your job *to communicate that to people who use *your *system. It’s no more inconvenient for you to do so than it is for millions of women to dispose of bodily fluids–wastes that are potentially a biohazard–in open trash receptacles and/or carry them around, when there’s potentially no need to do so. 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.
If flushing tampons were really as universally destructive as you’re claiming, I have no doubt that their manufacturers would have been forced to stop claiming them as flushable years ago.
Like Magiver, I’m going to guess that you’re also male. Same question: If you’re going to take a really big shit, do you do it in the trash can?
Yeah, you and fifty other people who’ve threatened the same and never followed through. Yawn.
I never flush them - my roomate did untill it clogged a new house’s pipes.
As to what to wrap them in: i use the wrapping of the new one (i peel it like a banana), set the wrapping on something, take the old one out, lay it on the wraping and then TP it.
tampon company marketing: sure they are that what makes them better than competing pads, you don’t have to look at them, you barely have to touch them, as long as they keep flying off the store shelves our job is done
plumbing and sewerage design and operation: if they make it through your house plumbing (and they won’t always) the sewage systems doesn’t dispose of them, someone has to fish them out at the sewerage plant or septic tank.
the only people that like flushable tampons are tampon marketing peple, females that can’t stand a tiny amount of ick (your grandmothers used refillable washable pads, they had balls [no not really just figuratively]) and plumbers needing boat payments.
You’d be surprised. Sure modern places do tend to have ample trash cans (each stall, out by the door, etc), but every so often you’ll either be in a lower rent place that has no trash cans OR the trash cans in the stall are overflowing with other women’s menstrual waste. Sorry, Charlie: if a business can’t be arsed to clean their bathroom once or twice a day, I don’t know what you want me to do? I guess I can throw my tampon out by the snack bar if you want, but that really doesn’t seem any more appealing than me throwing it in my purse to rot for the day.
I’m just imagining rolling out of the bathroom, blood soaked-toilet paper-covered tampon in hand. “Um, just deal with it, guys! I need to put this in the trash!” Then, I will dump it delicately on the top in the trashcan next to the butter dispenser at the movie theater.
Stop being such wimps about life’s icks, guys!
PS: I’m a fair person- men can also dispose of used condoms the same way. Equal opportunity and all that. It’s just body fluids, guys!
Uh, that’s not what I meant. A condom is the closest male equivalent to a tampon (receptacle for bodily fluids), so I think tossing one at the top of a trash heap is not unlike me throwing a tampon on the top of a trash can. It was a joke. I figured that was pretty clear. Shit son, you even quoted the smilies!
At a construction site (where I was the only female on the crew) I once had to do exactly that - “Hey, guys - where’d you put the trash?”
“Over there. What’s that?”
“A girl thing you want absolutely nothing to do with.”
Considers that I just emerged from the commode (which no, could not accommodate menstrual products). Points to trash can. Did you know that big burly construction guys can say “EWWWWWWWWW!” exactly like a squeamish 14 year old girl?
Mind you, I didn’t wave it around, or shout WHERE’S THE TRASH, but really, we’re all adults, all the guys on that crew had girlfriend/wife, some had kids - GTFO it and deal with reality.
The STUPID thing to do would have been to attempt to dispose of it down the hole when the likelihood of a clog was high and either I or one of the other of crew would have to fix the problem - whereupon I’m sure the resulting anger and embarassment would have been much greater.
Yup, that would be mighty STUPID (nice emphasis). I’m glad my joke was something you could relate to though, I’ve certainly done similar things at dudes’ houses and such.
Human waste breaks down quickly in water. Tampons, paper towels, and other fibrous items are specifically designed not to break down in water. Unless someone eats a tampon there isn’t a problem with XXX large doogies.
That drain looked like the one I pulled out of my house. I also removed water lines that were so corroded you couldn’t see any light from one end of a 1 foot section. The line going to the street, OIY…
Even if someone eats a diet of granola, psyllium husk and twigs, no piece of poop will remain solid in water.
My brother owns 4 duplexes in a row, and we have been renovating them and the pipe was from the last one. The one I’m in right now had slow drains and we actually jack-hammered up the basement floor and dug up the cast iron pipe and discovered that it had actually collapsed. I had to break apart the remainder of the broken pipe and connect the new plastic pipe to the cast iron with a metal clad Fernco.
FYI, if you ever have to break a connection to add PVC above ground you can cut through cast iron easily with a saw-zal and the right blade. I had a tight space to work in and couldn’t get the chain cutter around the pipe. Ended up using the rubber connector and clamps to connect them.
