{"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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