A large amount of this waste should have never ended up in the toilet in the first place. The worst offenders are wet wipes, baby wipes, cotton buds and leftover food. This waste, which could be easily avoided by just chucking it into the bin where it belongs, is increasingly causing problems to the sewage system and in sewage plants.
Sewage treatment plants are only meant to deal with wastewater and not with solid waste, but still they are increasingly dealing with foreign bodies that block their drains.
The sewage plant in Aspelt for example cleans the wastewater from about 5,500 residents. Each week, about a ton of extra waste pools in the sewage treatment plant.
In theory, sewage plant pumps only need to be cleaned once every three years. But with the amount of waste flushed down the toilet increasing, pumps now have to be cleaned every month in an effort to keep the pumps in working order. In the worst-case scenario, the added waste that doesn't belong in the sewer system could cause the pumps to break.
Only toilet paper should be disposed of in the toilet. Everything else could leave you to pay double - once for the product you flushed down the drain, and again for increased sewage tax.
