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[quote=Anonymous]LMAO People on DCUM so frequently fail to thoroughly read the OP and consider more than their own narrow circumstances, that I was going to write an annoyed comment that said, basically, "Absolutely the OP shouldn't be flushing applicators and wrappers, but why is everyone assuming she's flushing plastic?! Paper and cardboard exist?!"

Then I thought to double-check the OP and sure enough, she says it right there. I have become what I hate.

Anyway.

I will admit that for some time, I didn't really realize that the cardboard and paper and tampon itself shouldn't be flushed. I wasn't being lazy, it had just escaped me somehow, except for when I'd visit, like, a historic home and they'd have a million warning signs about the old plumbing. I don't know how I failed to grasp this-- it helped that I lived almost exclusively in newish apartment buildings from 18-30 or so, when I realized I had been doing it horribly, horribly wrong. Can't remember how I learned it, but it wasn't because I ever clogged the plumbing (at least not immediately, because I never knew). Because I lived in spaces with strong-- and shared-- plumbing, it just never came back to bite me. I guess I was lucky it also never did when I was visiting someone's home or whatever. I feel terrible about it now!

For the past ~15 years, I have done the right thing and thrown everything away. I feel I should also make penance somehow. Maybe donate money to help build better sanitation systems in other countries.

It definitely never occurred to me it would be okay to flush anything plastic, though.[/quote]

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