Flushable Wipes

• Metro Vancouver wants feds to define that ‘flushable’ wipes aren’t really flushable

  "They don't break down like toilet paper and they can cause massive clogs in pipes within homes as well as in our sewers and at our pump stations," Dana Zheng said.

  Health

  Dec 3, 2024
  
• A look at the Competition Bureau’s investigation on ‘flushable’ wipes

  A spokeswoman for the Competition Bureau said the bureau "does not endorse the representations made about 'flushability' or the tests used to evaluate this feature."

  Consumer

  Oct 9, 2022
  
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• Halifax Water completes pump repairs, harbour expected to return to ‘natural condition’

  Halifax Water says it has safely completed emergency repairs to its Duffus Street wastewater pump station after it was clogged by rags and wipes.

  Canada

  Aug 4, 2022
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• Halifax Water warns about so-called flushable wipes after pump clogged

  A photo from the utility shows a mass of rags and wipes clogging a pump station in Halifax, shortly after crews had attempted to do emergency repairs.

  Canada

  Aug 3, 2022
• The disgusting mess clogging Halifax’s sewers during COVID-19

  Photos show 'disposable wipes' and plastic gloves gathered into piles of brown and off-white material.

  Environment

  Apr 3, 2020
• Coronavirus: Don’t flush disposable wipes down toilet, urges City of Kelowna

  Disposable wipes flushed down the toilet can wreak havoc on residential pipes and sewer systems.

  News

  Mar 25, 2020
• Flushable wipes aren’t ‘flushable’ enviro group says, asks Competition Bureau to probe

  Friends of the Earth Canada wants the Competition Bureau to investigate a recent study it says proves there is no such thing as a "flushable" wipe.

  Lifestyle

  May 1, 2019
• Massive glob of ‘flushable’ baby wipes clog parts of Charleston sewer well

  A massive glob of “flushable” baby wipes clogged portions of the Charleston, S.C., sewer system, forcing divers to swim through nearly 30 metres of raw sewage to clear the obstruction.

  Trending

  Oct 18, 2018
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• Metro Vancouver urging residents to stop flushing disposable wipes

  Disposable wipes have become a $250,000 a year problem for Metro Vancouver.

  Mar 24, 2015
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• Canada, U.S. join forces on flushable wipes

  The pleas of Canadian waste-water officials to federal and provincial politicians for a crackdown on so-called flushable wipes are falling on deaf ears.

  Canada

  Dec 4, 2013