I have noticed that if conversation flags in a party, mention of anything cloacal gets people excited and animated chat ensures. I don't know if this is an explicitly British trait, but the toilet roll shortage makes me wonder if wet wipes are taking up the slack.
Wipes are known to help build up fatbergs.The package of a supermarket own brand wipe states that theirs are flushable. This may be true technically but they are certainly not dispersible, as my carefully controlled scientific experiment (one of them kept in in the shed a jar of water for the last fortnight) shows, they can remain wet but otherwise unchanged.
My water company's leaflet on the subject says "...even if the say 'flushable' they aren't." I am sure they know best, considering the number of blockages they must deal with, but how come the practice is not banned nationwide?
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