How to dispose of your waste responsibly; avoid blocked drains and the flooding of your home

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This is to protect our Apartment sewage pipes and canals from
unsightly products, avoid unnecessary expenses from STP repairs and
prevent blockages in the sewerage system.

Lots of sanitary protection items are flushed down toilets each month.
Our sewers were not designed for this sort of waste so they suffer
blockages in the pipes and treatment works and other problems.

Sanitary items and other personal waste should be disposed of
responsibly in the household waste bin or in the special bins in
common waste bin kept at basement.

What's the problem?
The toilet and sewerage system is designed to deal with urine, faeces
and toilet tissue. If you flush other 'personal' items such as
sanitary products and cotton buds down the toilet, this can easily
lead to blockages in the pipes and can cause flooding.
But that is not the only problem that may occur.
When the waste eventually gets to the sewage treatment plant it can
block the filter screens.
If there is heavy rainfall, the waste may escape from overflow pipes
directly into the filter tanks and blocks the plant.
The scale of the damage
Lots of sanitary protection items such as condoms, tampons, razors and
cotton buds are flushed down at our apartment toilets every day. Our
sewers were not designed for this sort of waste and despite the
efforts of the water industry to remove these products from the
system, they can either cause severe blockages and flooding or escape
the system and end up on parking area and canal sides.
We have regularly come across this waste and other used debris. It
also looks horrid. Would you like to walk down the basement and see a
condom in the seaweed or find a tampon applicator in a car parking
pool?.
Disposable products are an everyday part of life. They are easy and
convenient to use and easy and convenient to dispose of. But you
should not flush them away.
Waste sanitary and pharmaceutical items should, for health reasons,
first be placed in bags before being put in the bin.

Be part of the solution.

Follow the simple disposal code: Don't Flush It… Bag It & Bin It