Do you usually throw toilet paper in the trash or toilet bowl? Toilet paper is waste biodegradable, that is, it decomposes naturally in the environment. However, it is important to dispose of it correctly to avoid plumbing preservation issues and soil contamination. Understand more about disposing of toilet paper properly throughout this article.
Importance of correct disposal of materials
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In Brazil, there are restrooms in establishments that have signs warning about the prohibition of disposal in the toilet. All of this, because our sewer pipe may not hold waste and end up causing the pipe to clog.
According to the Basic Sanitation Company of the State of São Paulo (you know), the most common cause of clogging is improper waste disposal.
For this reason, it is not recommended that toilet paper be flushed down the toilet. However, there are some positives and negatives to these practices.
Advantages of disposing of toilet paper in the toilet
Some positive points of this disposal are:
- The disposal of the material does not pose environmental risks and, in addition, has the advantage of reducing the number of plastic bags used to dispose of paper in the trash;
- Throwing dirty paper in the toilet would avoid handling biological waste, which can bring contamination if someone has an infectious disease, for example;
- Cellulose fiber is naturally biodegradable and facilitates sewage treatment.
Negative points of discarding toilet paper in the toilet
It is not recommended to flush the material directly into the toilet for these reasons:
- Higher consumption of water to flush. This is because even if the toilet paper is diluted in the liquid, it takes greater pressure to pass it through the plumbing, thus spending more water;
- Brazilian plumbing projects do not have enough infrastructure to adopt the practice of discarding toilet paper in the toilet, so this is a limiting point.
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