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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I always wrap in the plastic wrapper the new pad comes in. Doesn’t everyone so that? You are presumably discarding a used pad/tampon and replacing it with a fresh one, yes? [/quote]

I use OB tampons so they only have a bit of plastic around them, not enough to wrap the old one in. I use TP.[/quote]

Same, love OB. If I travel, I do take a few extra biodegradable dog poop bags with me. [/quote]

Why are you wrapping your tampon? You can just flush it.

Either way this thread is bizarre and I agree with the poster who said most aren’t wearing disposable pads anymore. [/quote]

No, you most definitely cannot flush tampons, ever.  Are you dumb? [/quote]

NP here. Yes, you can.

Those five years on septic were longest of my life.[/quote]

Tampons are absolutely flushable, it says so right on the box. [/quote]

People are getting hung up on the word “can.” The technically correct answer is that tampons CAN be flushed but they SHOULDN’T be flushed.

I flushed them from my teens through my 40s. (And we always lived in older homes, plus I’ve lived in several countries and traveled to all kinds of places, and it’s never caused any plumbing problems that I knew about.) But, I learned a few years ago that flushing them is a bad idea because the wastewater systems can’t really handle them. So now I’m trying to get in the wastebasket habit. [/quote]

+1 same

But it grossed me out so much I buckled up and made the switch to reusable cup & disc and it's amazing. Never going back. Still use a pad as back up on my heavy day but it never gets full of blood.[/quote]

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