Scotland is being urged to bin all wipes – and ban wipes containing plastic – in a major new campaign launched by Scottish water to help protect the environment.
What happens when you flush wipes down the loo? What happens if you pour fats, oil or grease down the sink?
Most wipes contain plastic: toilet wipes, baby wipes, make-up wipes, cleaning wipes. So, they never really break down.
Instead, they block sewage pipes by clumping together with discarded fats, oil and grease.
Climate change is causing extreme weather. Sewers, choked by wipes, are overwhelmed by a deluge of storm water. Filthy water and revolting wet wipes are then forced back out of the waste water system.
That’s bad news for you, your neighbours and nature.
Wipes spoil riverside walks and litter our beaches.
They harm fish and birds, leaking microplastics into their habitats.
Ultimately, they’re messing with Scotland’s precious natural landscape.
So, when nature calls, there’s a world to save.
Please bin the wipes and join the wave.
