{"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

Or la marque Cottonelle vient de lancer au Qu\u00e9bec des lingettes pr\u00e9tendument biod\u00e9gradables et jetables dans les toilettes. C’est faux\u00a0: les lingettes provoquent des probl\u00e8mes majeurs, comme on a pu le d\u00e9couvrir en r\u00e9alisant notre mandat de 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":""},"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}]}}