No ‘flushable’ wet wipes tested so far pass water industry tests By Emma Campbell BBC Radio 4, Costing the Earth 13 November 2018 All wet wipes sold as “flushable” in the UK have so far failed the water industry’s disintegration tests, the BBC has found. Water companies say wet wipes don’t break down and are […]
The huge scale of the problem – London Assembly & Thames set out challenges (continue) New Report from the Greater London Authority Key facts Thames Water removes 30 tonnes of unflushable material every day from one of its sites. It unclogs five house blockages every hour from London’s sewers, a 30 per cent increase from […]
Bob Earll Waiting for Godot is Beckett’s famous play whose central characters wait but he never turns up. One wonders whether it will be 2042 before Government turns up and does anything on wet wipes in the face of the huge increase in their use and the growing costs to the water industry and environmental […]
Water UK: Wet wipes make up 93% of matter causing UK sewer blockages. City to Sea campaign says we must rethink bad habits and only flush ‘three Ps: pee, paper and poo’ as study finds blockages cost UK £100m a year. Baby wipes are causing hundreds of thousands of blockages in the UK sewer system […]
Letter to trading standards body calls for manufacturers to remove ‘misleading’ labelling to prevent wipes from blocking sewers and washing up on beaches Business Green: ‘UK water companies are urging the national trading standards body to help stamp out “misleading” labelling on disposable wet wipes that are marketed as flushable but clog up drains and […]
The scale of the problem of the problem caused by flushing ‘unflushables’ seems to be growing. MCS through their citizen science monitoring of beaches have highlighted the number of wet wipes that make it that far but the real problem lies with the blockages these and other items are creating. The question arises of whether […]
Wet wipes are causing problems both in the UK – on our beaches http://www.mcsuk.org/press/view/618 as well as for water authorities in the US where they are causing damage to pumps and blocking pipes. In the US they are taking legal action against the manufacturers to address the problem (LINK). See Below On UK Beaches Charlotte […]