PSA: Don’t flush your #tampons down the toilet - they’re made to not break down in water

[andreata]

I wish they would stop saying they are flushable. When we bought our first house, we had a pretty bad backup. That is when the plumber told me this as well. So, now I just put them in the trash.

[sadmanmassacre]

don’t flush pads/tampons. wrap it up in toilet paper and throw it in the trash.

[Charler]

Try working at the wastewater plant where the majority of them end up! The amount of tampons, applicators and condoms people flush is absolutely insane

[noelia]

Growing up Mexican tampons we’re not allowed in my house lol when I got to college and was renting a house with friends and our landlord tried to give us this talk since it was a bunch of women and we almost unanimously either said “tampons aren’t flushable” or “I use pads” and this man looked 😳 but he brought it up, we never had any plumbing issues 🤷🏻‍♀️

[infexas]

Yeah because who in hell flushes them😂 It's written on the damn package, not to😂

[scyla]

Just don't flush anything else than normal toilet paper (no wetwipes, they are never flushable, even if the packaging says so) and faecies. Every person in the wastewater business will be thankful

[katholeenloveit]

This is totally true but I gotta say I have had to deal with a plumber multiple times and they also assume I flushed tampons when I didn't even when I tell them I didn't. Last time I lost it (he was condescending) I told him I use a disc so there is now way

[a.a]

I thouth this was... The common norm? Like you don't flush tampons?

[Littlekitten_]

If anyone wants to blame someone its me 😮 i seriously thought it was ok for small tampons and im on birth control so i barely get my period. I will definitely stop’! Sorry

[unhombreviejoconalas]

Who uses tampons anymore? Cups are the future people 😊

[xejelah]

My mom never told me ANYTHING growing up. So, when I got my first blood, I read the box for pads and for tampons. It specifically stated to throw them away and never flush them. So, that's what I did - 25 years later my mom informs me she just found out that tampons can't be flushed. wtf?

[jasminemorales]

I don’t get why people flush them though? A big chunk of cotton?? Wrap it back in that plastic it comes in and throw it in the trash😅

[mahoganyiana]

I got yelled at once by a friends dad as a middle schooler because his dog went in the garbage and took out my wrapped tampon. And he had the NERVE to argue with me about whether or not they should be flushed. Threw the whole friendship away after that.

[stephanieg]

I used to work with a girl who said she flushes her tampons 😭 I said girl you aren’t supposed to do that it’s really bad for the sewer and septic systems. She just said oh well I’ve been doing it a long time 😶 smh

[whiteroseblossom]

I remember being 10 and trying tampons for the first time and my mom telling me to flush it and then my older sibling chimed in from the other room telling me to absolutely not do that.

[mckenziew.]

On a adulting facebook page i have been shocked how many thought that it was fine to do that.

[BliffleSplick]

I'd say most of their calls are probably "flushable wipes" related, actually.

Because they're not flushable, are made of plastic, and love fat, so they clump together and create fatburgs in the sewers

[alisondominguez]

oh yeah i saw this girl who talked about how her husband is a plumber and tell her its not good to flush tampons down the tilet but she said how she was just like weirded out by people who did flush their tampons saying like do you put your bloody tampon in. the bin?! like what its the same as a pad they both have blood on them and yu wrap both of them with paper

[phoenixkwon]

Americans flush their tampons and pads?? We can barely flush toilet paper at times here in South Korea

[jessexisting]

i remember one time it was really late and I was super tired so I accidentally flushed a tampon down the toilet and then I realized and I thought the entire house would explode but it didn’t and I’m not having any problems