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Most wipes (check the label!), paper towels, and other "unflushables" can create a sewer backup in your home. Flush only toilet paper, pee and poo and protect your home, the sewer system, and the environment.
Use a trash can instead of the toilet to dispose of items that don’t break down.
Flooding and Sewer Backups
Trash and liquefied fat, oil, or grease that is poured down the sink add or flushed down the toilet can cling to the insides of pipes and sewers. Over time it can build up and block pipes completely. When wastewater can’t move freely through the sewer system due to these blockages, it can cause flooding in local neighborhoods and sewer backups in your home!
Sewer backups happen when raw sewage can’t flow through the sewer system and is forced back into your home. Wipes—yes, even “flushable” ones, and other material that doesn’t break down in water may clear your toilet, but they can get caught in your internal plumbing.
Damage to Wastewater Treatment Plants
When trash isn't busy causing clogs in our sewers systems, it's wreaking havoc on our wastewater treatment plants! These materials don’t break down in the sewer system like toilet paper, so they arrive at our plants jamming mechanisms, clogging pumps, and breaking critical machinery, costing us all a lot of money in repairs. So check the label before you flush it, or better yet, use the trash can!
What Goes in the Toilet?
What goes in the toilet? Remember the three Ps: poo, pee, and toilet paper.
