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'Fatberg' weighing 100 tonnes removed from London sewer (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 1 week ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/london@feddit.uk

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[–] Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

It should definitely be illegal for wet wipes to be advertised as flushable. Maybe it already is in the UK, but in the US it still is not.

EDIT: Maybe there should even be a legally mandated warning label about not flushing them.

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 12 points 1 week ago

Some of them have the ambiguous:

That's obviously:

Do not throw this in the toilet.
Please throw it directly into the sea.
This product can be used to attack Koopa Troopers.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

they should be banned

[–] Nuerion@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i mean to be fair they do flush they just fuck up a lot of shit after the fact

[–] Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago

I would argue that for something to be "flushable" it has to be something the sewer system can actually handle.