Monster 'fatberg'

[Bazile]

Why do people flush nappies , wet wipes etc down the loo ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-41238272

[douglas9401]

Because they're lazy/stupid/lazy and stupid/they can.

[albaqwerty]

lack of knowledge presumably.

Disgusting, and not pleasant for the folk who will go in and smash it up.

[ummmm]

Lazy.

[NoMercy]

Because they're lazy and contemptuous. There's no excuse for it.

One of my other bugbears, particularly working in a big NHS Hospital, is the state the toilets are left in by colleagues. I wonder if they leave their own bathrooms at home in that state. Yuk.

[Bazile]

//Eight workers will break up the mass with high-pressure hoses, suck up the pieces into tankers and take it to a recycling site in Stratford.//

How are they going to do that - recyle , that is ?

[sunny-dave]

I agree NoM - the toilets in the NHS HQ that I was based at were frequently vile - and that was staff only - no patients or visitors. It beggared belief sometimes.

To address the OP - it's a combination of laziness and ignorance - it would concentrate people's minds if they had to deal with the consequences themselves.

At my previous house we had a private treatment plant (no mains sewers in the village) - despite a very clear note in the bathroom, one visitor insisted on flushing wipes - which quickly clogged the bubblers. I made absolutely sure she was the one to 'give me a hand' when I had to take the lid off & clean the pipes. She never did it again ...

[andres]

Stupid thing to do .The alternative method of putting wet and soiled nappies from both babies and nursing homes in dustbin is gross.

[andres]

^^Meant flushing them down the loo not your answer sunny-dave!

[gness]

For the same reason this country is covered in litter, Baz......

Get rid of our rubbish as quickly, thoughtlessly and effortlessly as we can because somebody else can clean up after us.... :-(

[albaqwerty]

Baz, to answer your Q about the recyling, something to do with biofuels apparently.

This site isn't secure tho

http://biofuels-news.com/display_news/12525/getting_clever_with_fatbergs_and_biodiesel__features_video/

[hereIam]

I feel really sorry for the folk who have to clear up all this mess from lazy so and so's. I don't think it will EVER change ..

[mallyh]

just after her husband died my daughters drains started belching sewage ,it stunk and spread everywhere she had to pay someone to help and it was caused by baby wipes building up and as she was the last house in the row it had accumulated in her pipes .very thoughtless of people to do this .

[murraymints]

EEK !

[Old_Geezer]

Nappies I don't understand. But *** wipes, whether wet or dry, should be what sewers are for. Otherwise you end up as one of those backward countries with poo covered stuff in a bin, in the bathroom/toilet. Sewers should be able to cope, and be maintained/updated to ensure that they can.

[albaqwerty]

the stupid niece will fry food and not bat an eye-lid about pouring the liquid fat down her kitchen sink.
Her mother is horrified but protestations fall on deaf ears.
Stupid niece now has my plunger which I want back, but that's another story.

[gingejbee]

Sewers CAN cope with what they are designed for....human waste and toilet paper (which breaks up when wet). There are no sewerage systems in any country that cope properly with new-fangled things like "wipes" which don't break up when wet.....even though manufacturers often call them "flushable".

[jno]

OG, it usually says on packets of wet wipes to flush only one at a time. But nappies? How on earth do you get one of those into a loo?

[Old_Geezer]

No idea. Never felt a need to try.

[albaqwerty]

can only presume you can moosh up a small baby's nappy into a tight bundle and use the end of the loo brush to get it over the u-bend

[jno]

you can't be all that lazy if you're prepared to go to such lengths, alba.

[By "you" I don't mean you, of course.]