Popular bathroom wipes blamed for sewer clogs

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LightningCrash

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Wet wipes dissolve more slowly than paper towels, and they cause a lot of problems with sewer pumps.
Even if they say "flushable", they're not. Don't use them.

In the sewer systems they stick to grease and form Fatbergs in the sewer, which are difficult to remove.

In England they removed a double-decker-bus sized Fatberg from a sewer. It was tons of nasty stuff.
 

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Wet wipes dissolve more slowly than paper towels, and they cause a lot of problems with sewer pumps.
Even if they say "flushable", they're not. Don't use them.

In the sewer systems they stick to grease and form Fatbergs in the sewer, which are difficult to remove.

In England they removed a double-decker-bus sized Fatberg from a sewer. It was tons of nasty stuff.

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