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Closed Ban all wipes packaging that says flushable

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Flushable wipes are a menace to the environment, most contain microplastics and have damaging consequences to life in water. These products block our sewers should be disposed of in sanitary bins instead of being flushed down the toilet.

https://friendsoftheearth.uk/plastics/wet-wipes-keeping-them-out-our-seas-and-sewers
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/02/wet-wipes-boom-is-changing-the-shape-of-british-riverbeds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/09/holland-barrett-to-stop-selling-wet-wipes-in-fight-against-fatbergs
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3003415/How-wet-wipes-destroying-planet-clogging-sewers-creating-floods-noxious-waste-triggering-outbreaks-allergies.html

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