I’m sure a lot of people find moist towelettes – also called wet wipes or cleaning wipes – very convenient. I use them often. I find they are nice to have near a massage table, in a car and in my purse or backpack.
But it is really bad to flush them down the toilet. Moist towelettes should be thrown in the trash. They will decompose, but they take much longer to decompose than toilet paper and hence clog the apparatus which cleans and treats waste water.
Here’s an interesting video which interviews someone with a water treatment facility and has some interesting footage of actual apparatus at a treatment plant:
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