Every morning, millions of people across America start their day with familiar routines that seem completely harmless. They ...

(BPT) – If you have a pack or two of wet wipes around the house, you know how convenient and helpful these household items can be. However, baby wipes, makeup wipes, and disinfecting wipes are ...

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — The City of Broken Arrow hopes to flush misconceptions about wet wipes down the drain. At least, figuratively. In a press release, Broken Arrow's Utilities Department said ...

In this photograph taken Sept. 20, 2013, in Middlesex, N.J., Rob Villee, executive director of the Plainfield Area Regional Sewer Authority in New Jersey, holds up a wipe he flushed through his test ...

Wet wipes may be an improvement on traditional toilet paper, but even ones that say “flushable” on the package are not. Studies have shown that you can flush anything down the toilet, like urine, ...

Congress is plugging its nose and wading into the gnarly problem of whether “flushable wipes” should, in fact, be flushed down the toilet. Congress is plugging its nose and wading into the gnarly ...

Thanks to a new Michigan law, the disposable wipes package atop your toilet tank should start to display a new label — if it doesn't already — to indicate the wipes should not to be flushed. The bill ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Twipes, a 2022 43North competition winner, is a bio-tech materials company selling the world’s first truly flushable and biodegradable wet wipes. The company moved from London ...

Two years ago, Charleston witnessed one of the nastiest wads of stuff in its long, recorded history: a mass of wipes about the size of a lounge chair that divers pulled from raw sewage lurking in the ...