Do you flush the empty toilet paper roll down the toilet?

[genericname85]

So i need a sanity check. i've been living my entire life untill now assuming you shouldn't flush these cardboard cores down the toiled cause it has a high risk on flushing them. i live in EU

i just caught my flatmate flushing one of these down. upon being confronted, he said "ah shit i didn't know, in america we always do this".

is he right? do americans do this or is he lying again (wouldn't be the first time).

Just flush them.

no! put them in the trash. the toilet may clogg.

[scentoflavender]

My daughter's college roommate spent a couple weeks with us over the summer one year and did this exact thing, along with tampons. Clogged up my main pipe running out to the sceptic tank. Got it quoted for around 700 bucks to inspect and clean out. I sat her down and explained why what she I'd was wrong and what effect it had on my house. I gave her the option of either option a ( pay half the plumbers fee) or b ( I'll rent a snake and you help clean it out, which will be around 50 bucks for her share). We went with option b, and she has since stayed here with no ill effects on my plumbing.

Moral of the story. Some people are just ignorant of how things work. It's best to just explain it and try and fix any issues together so they learn.

[genericname85]

yeah at this point i don't care if this asshole learns. to be honest i wish that the pipes clogg up right after i leave the place.

[Drewtate]

Your flatmate is lazy and ignorant. Don't get me wrong you can flush them and get away with it and one will break down but eventually they will build up and back up the sewer system. In. y apartment block here were 6 girls and they kept blaming us three guys for blocking the the toilets by flushing stuff down there as we had recently moved in and they'd already been there 3 years and the land lord was pissec talkingabout evictionand keeping our deposit as well as billing us to fix it. Anyway they brought plumber's out to see what the problem was, they opened the connecting sewer and it was blocked completely by tampons and maxi pads and face wipes. We took pictures and videos and sent to the land lord. He apologised and that was the last we heard of it. Sour faces on the women though for about six months, didn't help that we kept singing a few bars from the bodyform commercial

[genericname85]

yeah i heard a lot about stupid women flushing all their stuff down the toilet. but we're talking about a grown ass 30 year old man here...

[Drewtate]

Lazy bastard. Probably dropped it in by accident them to lazy to fish it out

[genericname85]

I don't know tbh. at this point i believe it might be either. stupidity or lazyness. not sure. but at least i know for 100% sure he's a liar now.

[dynamicyandere]

Lol, no way.


I grew up in the United States and I’ve NEVER heard of flushing the cardboard down the toilet.


The whole point of toilet paper for toilets, as opposed to something like paper towers, is because toilet paper can be broken down easily.


You can stir cardboard in water for hours and that cardboard isn’t going to be breaking down any time soon.

[DeeDeeDeVour]

That line "in america we always do this" is not true at all.

If your flatmate truly said that, he's that one and only American who's a bozo enough to do that.

I haven't heard of anyone else dumb enough to do that.

Otherwise, this is all made up to give Americans a bad rap.

[genericname85]

He definitely is a bozo xD but yeah I think he lied on purpose.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

No, throw it in a trash can.

[Bricealan]

Sure it is okay, IF YOU ALREADY KNOW WHAT A PLUMBER CHARGES TO UNPLUG YOUR TOILET, ... AND HAVE THAT AVAILABLE AND CAN GET A PLUMBER IN IMMEDIATELY WHEN THE TOILET OVERFLOWS

Just so you know!!

[genericname85]

yeah i'm planning to move out very soon and let that shit be his problem.

[PBandJ_Nerd]

I put the empty toilet paper rolls in the recycling bin.

[spartan55]

No, no, no. He may be American, but he is a total moron. I've lived in America my whole life and never see anyone do that.

[genericname85]

yeah that's what i thought.

[TrueConfection]

No and I've never heard of anyone doing so. Here in the U. S., most of us recycle or even repurpose the empty rolls.

[genericname85]

yeah. same here. so this guy is full of shit... thanks for the help.

[TrueConfection]

What does he do with the empty paper towel rolls?

[genericname85]

just flushes them down the toilet. he kept having issues with clogging after he took a dump and i never did. today i saw one of these rolls just hanging out down there, cause it didn't fully go down. he said he alwayss does it and he thought it's normal here cause alledgedly it's normal to do in america where he comes from.

[TrueConfection]

That's the toilet paper roll. What about the paper towel roll?

[genericname85]

oh. we don't use paper towels. i'm just talking about the toilet paper roll.

[TrueConfection]

Anyhow, there are people that try to flush things they shouldn't. I once saw a sign posted telling the public to not flush diapers on the toilet, including adult diapers. 👀

[genericname85]

yeah my sister used to flush down tampons back in the day. she got grounded for a month when my parents found out xD cause she was told not to flush them down. she was just too lazy to deal with the trash.

[Lionman95]

Not sure if Americans do that but as a fellow German I also never flushed them down the toilet and I wouldn´t even if Americans did it.

[genericname85]

yeah it struck me as weird when he said that, cause i remembered American toilet drains are smaller than ours.

[Curmudgeon]

That's nutty. USA toilet paper rolls of solid cardboard would clog most toilets I can think of.

[msmissydc]

I use them for gardening. They are perfekt for growing single seeds or saplings.

[genericname85]

Do they decompose well? Or do you remove them later?

[msmissydc]

I remove them later when The sapplings or grown seeds need to be repotted. At the time they fall apart though, so they already started. Especially As you need to keep the potting soil wet anyway in the seed phase.

[ShesRad80]

no- they go in a trash bin, he is totally lying

[genericname85]

yeah that's what i thought... thanks for helping out.

[ShesRad80]

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[Fireguy17]

Those are not ment to be flushed.
Neither are flushable wipes or white mice.
The last 2 items took out both of our lift pumps at the firehouse.

[genericname85]

wtf. i had assumed that the water purification plant would make sure these things don't end up in the fresh water supply xD or are you using waste water to fight fires?

[Fireguy17]

Nope, they do not break down and they tend to clog up the pipes.
Our station is connected to a forced main for sewage, so we have 2 pumps in a collector tank that pump it into the sewer main. The inlets and the grinder were packed full of wipes and white mice aka tampons and burned out the motors.
It isn't a case of the sewer plant not being able to handle them as they have screens to catch all of that, but they also get clogged up.

[genericname85]

Man that adds another layer of idiocy to just flush these down.

[Fireguy17]

They even say flushable on the label.
I'm sure there has to be an asterisk somewhere.
I just spent $531.42 to have the pipe cleaned for one of my tenants.
He had water coming up out of the floor drain.
His daughter flushed some down the toilet.
He was lucky the plumber could get there the same day, or he would have had to pee in the sink.

[tfan1]

I have Never in my life ever heard of anyone flushing the empty toilet paper roll cardboard tube down the toilet before.

[genericname85]

so it's safe to say my flatmate lied to me again... fuck me.

[tfan1]

Unfortunately yes he did. Toilet paper tubes usually get thrown out with the trash unless you want to recycle them.

[genericname85]

yeah i rarely saw special ones with a soft paper cores that said they are made to be flushed... but apart from these no. also aren't US toilet drain holes kind of tiny? here you can easily fit a coconut down there.

[tfan1]

😮. You can fit a coconut in the drain hole of the toilet?

[genericname85]

i mean let's say a "small-ish" cokonut xD but yeah. the only reason it would probably not go down is the S-shaped path in the piping.

[genericname85]

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[Sparkie460]

We never flush them down the toilet. We put them in the paper recycling bin. We don't even throw them in the trash.

[genericname85]

yeah that's normal here as well.

[AviatorTom]

The toilet roll is cardboard, intended for the trash, not the sewer line.

[RedInnocent68]

No! You can compost or recycle them, but they don’t breakdown fast enough to flush them…

[genericname85]

yeah i figure my flatmate is a lying piece of shit. time to leave.

[Dnice1]

We save them and fill it laundry lint to start a fire for when we need to burn trash or start a fire in the wood stove

[genericname85]

lol burning trash is illegal where i live xD

[exitseven]

no, that is toilet 101. you never flush cardboard down the toilet.

[Likes2drive]

Nobody does that because it won’t even flush and it might plug the bowl

[genericname85]

Yeah exactly what I thought.

[Apple1996]

Nah people in America throw them away

[genericname85]

yeah that's what i thought... luckily i will move out soon. fed up of living with this lying bastard :D

[electromagnetic]

Is it not recyclable?

[genericname85]

recyclable yes. but it's not water solvable. so it will clogg up the drain.

[electromagnetic]

Oh that’s fine. I just recycle mine. That’s why I was confused why people would flush it.

[genericname85]

Yeah I gather that's the normal thing and my flatmate had been lying.

[HelpfulWoman]

depends what its made of. cardboard no flush.

[genericname85]

yeah. just the plain old regular cardboard ones. and i've been wondering why the toilet keeps clogging.

[HelpfulWoman]

yeah, perhaps put one in a glass of water and let the roommate see how it turns to dodgy gloop and how it will clog your pipes quickly

[genericname85]

xD naw at this point i'm pretty much over this entire shared living thing. i've been staying in it after uni cause i was single... but it's not worth it with such a man child.

[genericname85]

tbh i hope the toiled completely cloggs up after i moved out.

[FunkyMonkee]

Only if I want the toilet to clog up!

[Anonymous]

Your friend should improve his lying skills

[genericname85]

i guess so...

[Opinion Owner]

Did you really believe that he was trying to pass off his awful habit as culture?

[genericname85]

i've never been to usa. so I don't know. but i was thinking it's a lie as he said it. just asked to confirm.

[genericname85]

i mean you do throw kitchen waste down the drain right? you have these grinding things down in the drainage i've seen before. so I don't know xD

[Opinion Owner]

Eww. If I were you I'd spray pepper spray on toilet paper and laugh at his ass on fire, he deserves it

[genericname85]

i'm just leaving. moving out. had enough of that man child.

[Sabretooth]

sure... if you wanna clog it up.

[jahaims]

Don't flush it