Question about tampon applicator disposal

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Anonymous wrote:What did OP think the little trash that's attached to the wall of almost every women's rest room stall was for?

I’m a different poster and always thought it was for pads. Like many here, the plumbing bill taught us a lesson we would never forget. Don’t be so hard on us, no, no one ever told us.

Same here, i always thought it was for pads?! i just flush it all down the toilet as long as its not a pad. Tampon, applicator (cardboard or plastic) and wrapper lol.
The only time i dont is if it's a weak toilet, otherwise flushh

I'm truly at a loss how someone can be this stupid. Are you 13 and just got your period?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am in my 40s and have a strong memory of advertisements when I was a teen or in my early 20s talking about flushable (cardboard) applicators. Does this sound familiar to anyone else? I flushed tampons and cardboard applicators until I learned otherwise from DCUM, about 9 or 10 years ago. I never used plastic applicators (in part because they weren’t the flushable ones!).

Actually they apparently still advertise them that way—so that is where some of us got the idea the cardboard ones were flushable… https://www.amazon.com/Tampax-Tampons-Flushable-Cardboard-Applicator-40/dp/B000GCNBNU

[Anonymous]

I have never flushed a tampon applicator or wrapper. I have accidentally flushed a tampon once or twice but never on purpose. One of my biggest fears is overflowing toilets and clogged pipes or other plumbing issues haha.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DH here.

Obviously little experience here (only once put a tampon in w/ an ex-girlfriend), but I remember I threw away the plastic applicator in a trash can immediately after.

Thought everyone knew to do that.

That's hot.

It was very intimate. Definitely involved, and built, trust.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if flushing was talked about in media and that’s where we all picked it up. Also I don’t remember trash receptacles in every stall when I was young which would lead to more flushing, particularly at school when those habits form.

Of course now every stall has them and as a middle aged woman, I’m no longer embarrassed if I have to carry a wrapped up tampon to the main bathroom garbage can.

No, I think you just all picked it up because it's the easiest thing to do, and most people are lazy and don't give a damn about the environment.

And as for the not having trash cans in every stall, yeah, we know. It is the same for the rest of us too. You're supposed to wrap it in toilet paper and bring it out to the main bathroom area. That's one of the many reasons most of us don't want men in our bathrooms.

I suspect a lot of people originally picked it up from their mothers, like I did. Plastic applicators weren't as common then but she had taught me to flush the cardboard ones, wrappers, and tampons. Sorry I didn't have more common sense as a teenager.....

[Anonymous]

Just use rags!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have never flushed a tampon applicator or wrapper. I have accidentally flushed a tampon once or twice but never on purpose. One of my biggest fears is overflowing toilets and clogged pipes or other plumbing issues haha.

I always flush my tampons (never the applicators or wrappers). After the plumber mentioned we shouldn't be flushing the tampons either, I told my husband's I would pay the 500$ fee for the privilege of not carrying wrapping up bloody tampons to stay in the bathroom trash. That shut him up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So OP’s the one who ignores the signs in the public restrooms asking people not to flush feminine hygiene products.

I always wondered why they had those signs. I thought, isn't it obvious not to flush trash down the toilet? I guess not. If OP is stupid enough to think that's okay and she can still type a message on DCUM then I guess there are people even dumber than her out there and who the hell knows what they're doing.

That reminds me, a few years ago our fed agency offices were closed because of the plumbing. After we reopened, there was an Agency Notice about what not to flush down the toilets. Some of the things they found in our GSA-leased building's pipes included: diapers (adult, I assume), plastic wrappers, condoms, and a CELL PHONE.

All of these feds were raised by wolves, I tell you.

I wouldn’t want to fish my cell phone out of the company toilet. I’d let it go too if it was a company phone. The condoms though. Which agency? The one where the toilet exploded? I’d guess a congressional building.

USAID. Those people are so nasty. But judging from the looks of the people getting off at Fed Triangle, most feds are!

[Anonymous]

I don’t understand. Tampons come in boxes with explicit instructions. They tell you step-by-step how to use tampons, including how to dispose of the applicator. Who are all these people who don’t know this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand. Tampons come in boxes with explicit instructions. They tell you step-by-step how to use tampons, including how to dispose of the applicator. Who are all these people who don’t know this?

I though girls learned this as teenagers:

How to Use a Tampon

https://www.playtexplayon.com/tampon-faq/how-to-use

[Anonymous]

I always flush my tampons (never the applicators or wrappers). After the plumber mentioned we shouldn't be flushing the tampons either, I told my husband's I would pay the 500$ fee for the privilege of not carrying wrapping up bloody tampons to stay in the bathroom trash. That shut him up.

Same. At this point, I only have like 1 or 2 years of periods remaining, and I have not had a plumbing issue yet. I'm going to just roll the dice. At least I have the sense not to flush a plastic applicator and wrapper. And I've noticed that the cardboard applicator option seems to have returned so I've been buying those (even though the actual tampon doesn't work as well).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait you’re not supposed to flush applicators?? I’ve been flushing the plastic ones with wrappers and the tampon ofc for years.

Ummm

A recent beach cleanup at Turtle Grove in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, collected 381 plastic tampon applicators in a 150-metre stretch of beach.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: At work, I flush everything. I hate my boss and she owns the property, so it’s the little things

Karma will catch up with you. May your child be lucky and catch a used tampon on their fishing pole or be out picking up trash on a beach with used tampon applicators.

My dad was in the navy, and we were taught that if it didn’t go in your mouth, it didn’t get flushed in the toilet. Sorry Roto-Rooter our household has never needed your services, and doubtful we ever will.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wait you’re not supposed to flush applicators?? I’ve been flushing the plastic ones with wrappers and the tampon ofc for years.

Ummm

A recent beach cleanup at Turtle Grove in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, collected 381 plastic tampon applicators in a 150-metre stretch of beach.

What? I’m a little jealous of the color variety our northern neighbors are enjoying.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So OP’s the one who ignores the signs in the public restrooms asking people not to flush feminine hygiene products.

I always wondered why they had those signs. I thought, isn't it obvious not to flush trash down the toilet? I guess not. If OP is stupid enough to think that's okay and she can still type a message on DCUM then I guess there are people even dumber than her out there and who the hell knows what they're doing.

That reminds me, a few years ago our fed agency offices were closed because of the plumbing. After we reopened, there was an Agency Notice about what not to flush down the toilets. Some of the things they found in our GSA-leased building's pipes included: diapers (adult, I assume), plastic wrappers, condoms, and a CELL PHONE.

All of these feds were raised by wolves, I tell you.

I wouldn’t want to fish my cell phone out of the company toilet. I’d let it go too if it was a company phone. The condoms though. Which agency? The one where the toilet exploded? I’d guess a congressional building.

USAID. Those people are so nasty. But judging from the looks of the people getting off at Fed Triangle, most feds are!

I like where this thread is going.