A mountain of wet wipes has been revealed in Bristol after a water company dredged them from a sewage works in the city. Wessex Water said thousands of wipes were blocking drains and causing water ...
Footage of a deer chewing a wet wipe at a popular city park has prompted a warning about litter from rangers. A visitor to Wollaton Park in Nottingham filmed the footage, which shows one of the ...
A woman is calling for people to stop flushing wet wipes and sanitary towels down the toilet after a sewer system blockage caused her garden to flood with raw sewage. Christine, 73, from Aberdare ...
So, the news that the UK Environment minister Therese Coffey has announced a ban on plastic wet wipes for England to come into force in the next 12 months makes me want to celebrate – but it’s ...
A NOTE ABOUT RELEVANT ADVERTISING: We collect information about the content (including ads) you use across this site and use it to make both advertising and content more relevant to you on our ...
Wet wipes shouldn’t go down the loo, even if they say they’re ‘biodegradable’, ‘natural’, ‘compostable’ or ‘flushable’. Ensure you put them in with the general waste, to prevent the harmful ...
The brunt of the snowfall targets Northern New England, where heavy, wet snow totaling anywhere from 4 inches to a foot across most places is likely, and up to a foot and a half or two in the ...
Helen Skelton investigates why just because a wipe is labelled “flushable”, it might not be OK to put it down the loo… Wet wipes are the cause of an estimated 90% of sewer blockages.
From spilt drinks (it can happen at any age) and dribbled food during weaning, to newborn nappy explosions and milk leaks, it’s a braver mum than I who would leave home without at least a travel pack ...
Let’s face it, wet wipes are a convenient, nappy changing essential that we all use on a daily basis. The easy alternative to cotton wool and water, they help with hygiene, and in a pinch, there’s ...
a combined New England Wind 1 and 2, and single-state bids in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. New England Wind 1, the former Park City Wind, is described as a 791-megawatt "shovel ...