14 things you should never flush down the toilet. Remember the four Ps.

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Not a garbage can.
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▼ You may have heard of a fat berg. It’s what happens when wet wipes, condoms, and chicken fat congeal into a glistening mass ready to choke sewer systems around the world.
2017’s Whitechapel fatberg, the pride of London’s sewer system, at one point measured 850 feet long and weighed 130 tons. That’s roughly the size of 89 Priuses. I’m joking about it being the “pride” of anything—it is, in fact, a horror show of our own making—but it is true that a chunk of the fatberg lives at the Museum of London, where it has reportedly changed color and started sweating.
Fatbergs have also forced raw sewage to bubble up in New Jersey basements, contaminated  waterways in Baltimore, and wrought havoc in our institutions  of higher learning. The latest behemoth on our radar has been doing its oily mischief in a popular English vacation spot. A 51-year-old sewer worker in Sidmouth discovered the 210-foot-long mass under the esplanade—theesplanade!He said it smelled like  rotting meat.
Suffice it to say that these masses of cooking oil, diapers, and E. coli bacteria are not good for our health, our sewer systems, or our cities’ sanitation budgets. Want to do your part to avoid contributing to the problem? A good place to start is remember the four Ps: poop, pee, puke, and (toilet) paper are fine for your plumbing. As for the rest: here are 14 things you should not send down the toilet, the kitchen sink, or any other pipe.
1. Flushable wipes
“The term ‘flushable’ just means it gets out of your toilet. It still has an impact downstream,” says Pam Elardo, deputy commissioner of the Bureau of Wastewater treatment at the New York City Department of Environmental Protection. “It’s wreaking havoc throughout the collection system. Wipes cause a lot of blockages, and realistically that leads to sewage backing up into people’s houses.”
2. Floss
A good rule of thumb is “if it doesn’t come out of you, it doesn’t belong in the loo,” Elardo says. However there are a lot of exceptions to this rule, like…
3. Hair
“It’s not desired,” says Elardo. “It wraps around and binds up the grease and the wipes. What’s so hard about putting that stuff in the garbage?”
3. Blood
“If you’re bleeding profusely, you should go to the hospital,” Elardo says. “Menstrual blood, though, is fine.”
4. Tampons
“It technically comes out of you, but it’s not a biological product,” Elardo says. “If you come by [the treatment facility] you’ll see our catcher screens. They’re covered in tampons, pads, condoms, and flushable wipes.”
5. Condoms
See notes above.
6. Nail clippings
“We’re not going to see their impact like we do flushable wipes,” Elardo says. “But I would just like to encourage people to use their trash cans.”
7. Cat litter (▪ ▪ ▪)

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Viney Mittal

Thanx a lot. The write up is very informative and useful... :-D

Srinivas1939

Excellent advice.Should make one pause before throwing things into the toilet bowl.

dushazmi

Must follow for preserving environment.