Which is better for the environment?
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Originally Posted by The Raptor,May 21 2007, 10:04 AM
Never use your toilet as a trash basket. Domestic solid waste should be picked up by a municipal or private trash service where it will be legally deposited into a sanitary landfill designed to accept solid waste. Toilet-generated effluent is collected by a sewer system and deposited into a wastewater treatment system, which wasn't designed to process solid waste. Treated water is then discharged into the ocean or a river or lake. If you don't believe me, ask your local municipal officials.
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Originally Posted by The Raptor,May 21 2007, 10:04 AM
Never use your toilet as a trash basket. Domestic solid waste should be picked up by a municipal or private trash service where it will be legally deposited into a sanitary landfill designed to accept solid waste. Toilet-generated effluent is collected by a sewer system and deposited into a wastewater treatment system, which wasn't designed to process solid waste. Treated water is then discharged into the ocean or a river or lake. If you don't believe me, ask your local municipal officials.
Besides, I was wondering which was "better" for the environment so I would do it. There are places that have signs that say not to put paper into the toilet. 
So there you have it!So the concensus is flushing paper is less damaging to the environment?
Ok then! That's what I usually do anyway.
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Originally Posted by The Raptor,May 21 2007, 01:04 PM
Never use your toilet as a trash basket. Domestic solid waste should be picked up by a municipal or private trash service where it will be legally deposited into a sanitary landfill designed to accept solid waste. Toilet-generated effluent is collected by a sewer system and deposited into a wastewater treatment system, which wasn't designed to process solid waste. Treated water is then discharged into the ocean or a river or lake. If you don't believe me, ask your local municipal officials.
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I worked for a company that sold chemicals to a sewage treatment plant, and it takes almost no time at all for toilet paper to dissolve, if it even makes it to the plant intact. Enzymes, degreasers, and other chemicals can work wonders.
Some places have you throw the toilet paper in the trash because the pipes in their sewage systems can't handle the wadded up paper products.
Some places have you throw the toilet paper in the trash because the pipes in their sewage systems can't handle the wadded up paper products.
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From: La Crescenta, CA
Originally Posted by NFRs2000NYC,May 21 2007, 09:33 PM
Yes, but toilet paper isnt considered solid waste.
unless a certain someone hunts through your garbage can. 
