My sister lives in a cul-de-sac, and a few years ago they had issues with the drains backing up. Young couple with young children, nappies down the drains, tried to deny all knowledge, luckily the council and water co sorted the issue and the people.
I saw the item on wetwipes and was equally shocked. Over 90% of drain blockages are caused by them. The Government is quick enough to ban things when it suits them, so simply give the manufacturers a fixed, and short, timescale to come up with an alternative which doesn't contain plastic and is fully biodegradable in x weeks/months. The world seemed to tick along nicely without wetwipes so they can't be classed as essential. Convenient, but not essential.
I've never understood why wipes couldn't be sold as dry paper to which you could add a sachet of whatever you choose or essential oils. Add this to a measured amount of tap water. - or just plain water.Pour onto the paper and bobsyeruncle. Cheaper to transport. No preservatives etc needed as you would be making them 'fresh' in whatever quantity you needed.
The trouble is, the shops are full of wipes for every kind of cleaning, not just babies. I think a lot of people see them as an easy thing, use, throw away, forget. I have some antibacterial ones that we use to wipe over the bathroom surface before we do our covid tests (then they go in the bin with the other test rubbish) but apart from that we use washable flannels, cleaning cloths, dusters etc. Our parents did the same and they didn't have automatic washing machines when we were children so it's a doddle for us by comparison. If throwaway wipes were banned tomorrow the world wouldn't stop turning.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
It's crazy ... there's wipes for washing the floor with now ... Boris says he doesn't want to tell people what to do, just give them the information so they can make choices .... it's about time he learned that some things are too important to be left up to people's choice ... as a parent he should have learned that ......... or maybe not 🙄
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
People in general can't be trusted to make the right choices, even when they're easy and take hardly any effort. There are too many people who'll do what's most convenient for them and to hell with the wider consequences. Look at COVID and voluntary mask-wearing. I popped in to Aldi yesterday evening on my way to my evening class and I think I was the only person in there with a mask on. At the class there are maybe five of us out of about 15 who still wear masks on the way in and out as per the request on the door of the community centre. It makes me more than a bit grumpy.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
There is a certain local councillor I have to deal with on local projects. She is a fundholder and organisations can apply for grant funding from her budget for community projects. It was her fund that paid for most of the community bus pilot project that has now started. But it has been problematic getting the word out to all of the remote villages and hamlets the bus is designed to help. So - imagine my delight when the local Green Party offered to put an item on it in their newsletter which goes to every household in the catchment area. I emailed said Councillor who immediately responded by asking me to ask the Green Party NOT to put this in their newsletter, followed by a string of emails, all in high dudgeon, about how we are a in a Conservative led administration (she is a Tory) and didn't want any banner waving by the Green Party. I sent her what they propose to put in which I am quoted as saying that the project is funded by our district council. She replied that the name of the fund she holds wasn't specifically named. There were 3 emails from her sent at 7am this morning, all still in high dudgeon, with the last one saying that she was referring the matter to the local Green Councillor (who represents a different ward) "who perfectly understands my disquiet". Last night I was rising above as I so often have to in dealings with this woman but I am sick and tired of her using language like "I am not happy", "I am absolutely appalled" and "I object quite strongly" to me - when really she should be delighted that all of the houses are getting info on the community bus service she sponsored!
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I emailed said Councillor who immediately responded by asking me to ask the Green Party NOT to put this in their newsletter, followed by a string of emails, all in high dudgeon, about how we are a in a Conservative led administration (she is a Tory) and didn't want any banner waving by the Green Party. I sent her what they propose to put in which I am quoted as saying that the project is funded by our district council. She replied that the name of the fund she holds wasn't specifically named. There were 3 emails from her sent at 7am this morning, all still in high dudgeon, with the last one saying that she was referring the matter to the local Green Councillor (who represents a different ward) "who perfectly understands my disquiet".
Last night I was rising above as I so often have to in dealings with this woman but I am sick and tired of her using language like "I am not happy", "I am absolutely appalled" and "I object quite strongly" to me - when really she should be delighted that all of the houses are getting info on the community bus service she sponsored!