{"id":27184,"date":"2021-10-02T12:34:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T16:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/?p=27184"},"modified":"2022-11-07T15:11:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T20:11:25","slug":"lingettes-jetables-et-cottonelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/lingettes-jetables-et-cottonelle\/","title":{"rendered":"Disposable Wipes: The Cottonelle Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toilets are not trash cans! In fact, you should not throw anything down the toilet, except toilet paper. And especially not the all-too-popular wipes that clog sewers, cause equipment breakdowns and cause wastewater to spill into our rivers, as reported The Press<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the Cottonelle brand has just launched wipes in Quebec that are supposedly biodegradable and flushable. This is false: wipes cause major problems, as we discovered while carrying out our mandate of detection of pollution sources<\/a> in the Rivi\u00e8re du Nord for the City of Saint-J\u00e9r\u00f4me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So beware of so-called plumbers who claim these wipes are biodegradable and who pass on the bill and the challenge of cleaning wastewater treatment systems to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andr\u00e9 B\u00e9langer<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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Andr\u00e9 is general manager and spokesperson at Fondation Rivi\u00e8res. A seasoned communicator, he is interested in digital transformation and innovation within organizations.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Les toilettes ne sont pas des poubelles! En effet, il ne faut rien jeter dans les toilettes, sauf du papier de toilettes. Et surtout pas les trop populaires lingettes qui viennent boucher les \u00e9gouts, causer des bris d’\u00e9quipements et provoquer des d\u00e9versements d’eaux us\u00e9es dans nos rivi\u00e8res, comme le rapportait La Presse. Or la marque […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14,40,44,62,79,83,89],"class_list":["post-27184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chroniques","tag-adoptez-une-riviere","tag-eaux-usees","tag-egouts","tag-lingettes","tag-pollution","tag-qualite-de-leau","tag-riviere-du-nord"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}