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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I flushed tampons for 30 years.  That’s what I was taught.  And it’s what was on the instructions throughout my teens and 20s, after which I was done reading tampon instructions.  My very environmental college taught me to recycle and bring my own bag to the grocery store, but never taught me to toss tampons.  I only stopped flushing them in my early 40s, and after only a couple of years or so switched to a menstrual cup.  I’m almost 50.[/quote]

Same, at this point I'm curious when the instructions finally admonished against flushing, and also when this became a widely acknowledge issue.  As vocal as a certain poster is, I think this change is actually quite recent.  Of course, I wasn't checking in with the instructions along the way either, and there are other ways I've violated their guidance, especially having come of age during the toxic shock scare.  TMI, I think the real reason I stopped flushing, wasn't new awareness, but living in a house with a slow flush, which isn't a sewer line issue, but due to calcified supply lines in an old toilet--regardless it was the sort of nuisance that discouraged any extra flushing and made me reevaluate need to do so.  Also most public disposal boxes didn't have placards until more recently.[/quote]

In the 2010 thread that was linked to earlier in this thread, a poster went to the Tampax website to see what it had to say about this.  Here is what it stated in the FAQs:

[b]Can I flush the entire thing?

Yes. The Tampax Cardboard tampon, wrapper AND applicator can be flushed in toilets connected to city sewer systems. Frequent flushing of tampons is not recommended for septic systems.[/b]

That was [b]2010[/b].  So the insufferable poster(s) who keep speaking so scornfully about how the instructions stopped saying this "decades ago" can STFU.
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