According to Urban Utilities, large sewer-clogging wet wipe blockages cost south-east Queensland sewerage providers around $1 million per year. They say though many products are marked ‘flushable’, it does not mean they should be flushed down the toilet.
There has been no nationally agreed standard between makers, retailers and utilities to what equates flushability...until now.
Urban Utilities says a draft national standard, now in the public consultation phase, is a ‘game changer’, as its the first time in the world where utilities and manufacturers have banded together to define the criteria of what should and should not be flushed. It will go through nine weeks of public comment before finalisation.