Editorial: What we flush down the toilet matters for health and safety. Only the ‘three Ps,’ please
by Los Angeles Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Nov 16, 2023
3 minutes
What goes in the toilet, and what goes in the trash? It’s the kind of discussion one has with a 2-year-old, and is all the more delightful because it’s a topic generally regarded as taboo in polite conversation. You get to say things such as only “ the three Ps” — pee, poop and paper — go in the toilet. Everything else goes in the trash can. Right?
Alas, modern human life is much more complicated and the conversation far more, and . We should not flush these, though throwing them in the trash doesn’t mean they won’t come back to harm us.
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