Flushing "Flushable" Wipes Is a Plumbing Nightmare Flushable wipes do not dissolve as fast as toilet paper. Toilet paper is ...

Despite teasing consumers for decades, so-called "flushable" wipes can lead to a cascade of problems within home plumbing and wastewater systems. The key issue lies in their composition and durability ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Companies like Cottonelle and Charmin heavily advertise their flushable wipes. They sound so convenient. But city sewers and home septic systems may beg to differ. Plumber Kenny ...

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Not much bothers Bill Cyrus. As a technical service manager at the Trinity River Authority's wastewater treatment plant, he has seen and smelled it all. For 39 years, Cyrus has ...

In this photograph taken Sept. 20, 2013, in Middlesex, N.J., Rob Villee, executive director of the Plainfield Area Regional Sewer Authority in New Jersey, holds up a wipe he flushed through his test ...

Flushable wipes aren’t flushable. That’s the message the managers of municipal wastewater plants would like the public to get. The items fished out of Tacoma’s wastewater system over the decades are ...

Increasingly popular bathroom wipes — pre-moistened towelettes that are often advertised as flushable — are being blamed for creating clogs and backups in sewer systems around the U.S. Wastewater ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — ABC News 4 first told you about this story three years ago. You might call it the dirty little secret of the flushable wipe industry. The Charleston Water System says right ...

In the grand tradition of misidentifying problems and offering proposals that won’t work, the city council of Washington, D.C. wants to force manufacturers of flushable toilet wipes to change the ...

The city of Wyoming, Minn., is suing six makers of wet wipes, arguing that so-called "flushable" wipes are clogging plumbing networks and costing the city big money. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in ...

The wipes may claim to be flushable, but they're costing cleanup crews millions. Flushable wipes have caused problems in New York City wastewater treatment plants. NYC Environmental Protection March 4 ...