Sigh. You didn't read the link, did you? Millions of people successfully using a garbage disposal with a septic tank, long term, is not comparable to people who unsuccessfully drive their car.
Millions of people successfully using a garbage disposal with a septic system, long term, indicates that it can be done quite easily. But you'd already know that if you had read the link on septic tank pumping schedules.
replying to willshak, Kara keating wrote: Unfortunately marketing schemes like the word "flushable" confuses a lot of people. Just because a product says flushable doesn't mean biodegradable. Like baby wipes say flushable however they have costed public municipalities millions of dollars for back ups and thousands of pounds of "FLUSHABLE" items to be removed out of our sewage plants. So think of an individual septic on our properties, it cannot and will not break this stuff down.
We put our used toilet paper and wipes in biodegradable dog poop bags that go in the trash! This rule has discouraged adult children from visiting us. Although we miss their company there is no worry about the wrong things being flushed.
Wouldn't it be even better to s*it in the bag? Or s*it in the garden to fertilize it?
I call BS.
I have heard of others doing the same. It would discourage me from visiting also.
*If* I were ever to do such a thing, I'd relax the rules when I had company.
I can't imagine choosing my septic system over my children.
jkmiddle says he "misses their company". Either bagging his toilet paper is BS or the fact that he misses his kid's company is.
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