Paris is not impressed with a “hygienic and biodegradable” toilet roll which features a flushable tube, insisting the popular product is anything but green and would overwhelm the city’s sewage system, reports FRANCE 24.
The city’s hygiene tsar Mao Peninou said the “AquaTube” product manufactured by the Lotus brand is playing havoc with the city’s sewage and water treatment systems and has written to the company to complain, Le Parisien reported on Thursday.
Peninou’s outburst followed a fragrant trip down the French capital’s sewers where, Peninou said, he saw the appalling consequence of bad toilet habits with his own eyes, although there has been no official survey into the effects of flushing disintegrating toilet rolls.
“Anything that encourages people to flush items [other than the usual] down the toilet is a bad thing,” said Peninou, who added that water treatment in the capital already costs a staggering 212 million euros a year.
“I totally understand that this is a practical product [for consumers], but even if the used roll does indeed disintegrate [when flushed], it pollutes the water and is overwhelming our treatment efforts.”
“It’s a prime example of a technological innovation presented to the public as positive, but which is anything but,” said Peninou.
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