Think flushable wipes are safe? Think again! Thick, scented, baby, and disinfecting wipes can clog pipes, ruin septic systems ...

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Not much bothers Bill Cyrus. As a technical service manager at the Trinity River Authority's wastewater treatment plant, he has seen and smelled it all. For 39 years, Cyrus has ...

Flushable wipes are, technically, flushable, the same way you can technically swallow a wad of chewing gum. Therein lies the dangerous half-truth behind flushable wipes: Just because a brand labels ...

Flushable wipes are controversial. On the surface, they seem ideal: A discreet wipe in the bathroom leaves you clean without repeated wipes with toilet paper. But CR recently interviewed experts who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Something’s in the water. And the Super Bowl made it worse. Mere weeks after a collapsed pipeline spilled an estimated 234 million ...

Companies such as Cottonelle and Charmin have heavily promoted bathroom wipes Cloth-like material doesn%27t break down in the sanitary sewer system like toilet paper Public works managers say the ...

Extra-moist bathroom wipes — championed by celebrities like Terrance Howard and will.i.am — have become a catastrophic pain the the a$# in sewer systems around the world. The increasingly popular rear ...

The company that manufactures Cottonelle wipes has recalled its Flushable and GentlePlus wipes, sold in stores throughout the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean, over the potential presence of bacteria ...

Flushable wipes aren’t flushable. That’s the message the managers of municipal wastewater plants would like the public to get. The items fished out of Tacoma’s wastewater system over the decades are ...

Customers who bought Costco's Kirkland Signature Moist Flushable Wipes between 2011 and 2017 may be eligible for money in a class action lawsuit settlement. The lawsuit claims Costco falsely ...

Step away from the toilet. A study tested 101 single-use wipes and not one of them passed a flushability test. Instead, the wipes failed to fall apart or disperse safely in tests. In other words, ...

Kimberly-Clark has announced a recall of its popular Cottonelle Flushable Wipes and Cottonelle GentlePlus Flushable Wipes due to concerns over possible bacteria contamination. The wipes were sold ...