What do you put down your toilet

[Spare tyre]

Other than turds and pee

I was chatting to a chum about our recent blocked drain incident, kid dropped a toy down, it got flushed then back up - much fun

He lives in a a flat and puts all food waste down there, reason being it’s a ball ache to take it to the external bins, down the loo keeps the bin dry

I have never thought of putting leftovers down the loo due to the risk of blockage

He then went on to tell me that all his confidential waste (bank statements etc) get ripped up into pieces when he’s having a turd, then flushed, again it’s never crossed my mind


Am I the only one using a toilet as a toilet or have I found a new life hack in talking to my mate

[trickywoo]

Chum sounds weird but this is PH so there will probably be loads along in a bit saying they do all that and some.

[Alorotom]

Can’t say mine is used for anything other than the obvious but I can kind of see the point with some food waste.

Clearly a turkey carcass etc. would be a bit of a nightmare to flush!

Paperwork though??! Wtf?!

[Super Sonic]

When he says his bank statements etc get torn into small pieces I'm assuming he means 4" squares.

[gtidriver]

Food waste goes down along with cat st and pee clumps from the litter box, old toilet roll holders/inners.

[Philplop]

Jesus.

Toilet paper, pee and poo, are the only things that you should flush.

Paperwork doesn’t break down in water.
Cardboard toilet roll tubes don’t break down in water.
Food waste causes blockages.
Wet wipes are essentially plastic and don’t break down.
Animal cack contains parasites that are resistant to water treatment processes and are harmful to humans.

st, piss and bogroll. It’s not complicated.

[The_Doc]

I store my faeces on site, so it's limited to numbers 1 and 2 and bog roll.
No wipes, minimal cooking fat, nowt else.

When your business is your business, you make it your business to sort out the st.



About £150 every 2 yrs to come and take it away.
Water bill is £13/month

[Castrol for a knave]

I usually flush nappies, sanitary towels, paper towels, gum, old phones, unpaid bills, junk mail, my ex's sweater, hopes, dreams or goldfish down the toilet

[TameRacingDriver]

Someone at my old work dropped his work iphone down the bog and attempted to flush it. This biohazard was then passed to me by the floor manager who found it a short time later. Charming fker, eh?

[TVR Sagaris]

gtidriver said:

Food waste goes down along with cat st and pee clumps from the litter box, old toilet roll holders/inners.

You put these down the toilet? Do they even flush? Do you not have a bin?

[Hunky Dory]

Castrol for a knave said:

hopes, dreams

[Russet Grange]

We've got a sceptic tank, so whilst I think it's fine to flush piss and poo down there, the tank isn't so sure.

[hidetheelephants]

I'm starting to have sympathy for Thames Water, no wonder sewage works keep getting clogged up.

[Tisy]

Russet Grange said:

We've got a sceptic tank, so whilst I think it's fine to flush piss and poo down there, the tank isn't so sure.

[daqinggregg]

Yesterday while taking a shower, the soap slipped out of my hand, arked through the air and went straight down the khazi, due to it aerodynamics and slippery surface there was no need to flush.

With no new soap in the bathroom, I had to perform the walk of shame to the kitchen, in the buff, dripping wet; looking on the bright side, being poor, it wasn’t very far.

That’s about as exciting as it ever gets.

[rodericb]

Philplop said:

Jesus.

Toilet paper, pee and poo, are the only things that you should flush.

Paperwork doesn t break down in water.
Cardboard toilet roll tubes don t break down in water.
Food waste causes blockages.
Wet wipes are essentially plastic and don t break down.
Animal cack contains parasites that are resistant to water treatment processes and are harmful to humans.

st, piss and bogroll. It s not complicated.

Turds are "food waste" to an extent. The means to which is transported from point of origination to their resting place needs to be appropriate, and what is transported by those means needs to, in turn, be appropriate. As an earlier post said, you're not going to flush a turkey carcass but some left over peas and gravy? If you have an "insinkerator" or a macerator for food scraps it's all ending up in the same pipes....

[StuntmanMike]

Hunky Dory said:

Castrol for a knave said:

hopes, dreams

[Skyedriver]

TVR Sagaris said:

gtidriver said:

Food waste goes down along with cat st and pee clumps from the litter box, old toilet roll holders/inners.

You put these down the toilet? Do they even flush? Do you not have a bin?

Recycling surely!!

[Skyedriver]

Russet Grange said:

We've got a sceptic tank, so whilst I think it's fine to flush piss and poo down there, the tank isn't so sure.

We also on a septic tank.
Previous occupier must have had a liking for those cotton bud things!!

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Isn't the toilet the traditional burial ground equivalent for the deceased goldfish?