Why Are So Many Americans Flushing Their Contacts Down the Toilet?
The trash is <em>right there</em>.
by Angela Lashbrook
Aug 19, 2018
3 minutes
I hadn’t given much thought to throwing away my contacts in the toilet. I don’t do it often, just when the bathroom trash can is full. It doesn’t seem especially dangerous—contact lenses feel so impermanent, so flimsy and transparent that they’ll simply dissolve as they swirl down the train.
When I confessed this habit to my editor, I was met with incredulity: Surely, this must be a quirk? But I have scientific vindication that I’m not the only one. According to a presented at the American
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