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    The New York Times‏Verified account @nytimes Aug 25

    Contact lenses, tampons, facial tissue — flushing them can’t be so bad, right? Wrong, experts say.https://nyti.ms/2OZwd8o 

    6:30 AM - 25 Aug 2018
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      1. Chunkyness‏ @ChunkyTWshngtn Aug 25
        Replying to @nytimes

        I vote we throw all of out trash into nature’s furnace, volcanoes.

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      2. With Ash Zade‏ @withAshZade Aug 25
        Replying to @nytimes

        Even if it says it can be flushed, don't risk messing up your pipes.

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      3. suzannemo42‏ @suzannemo421 Aug 25
        Replying to @withAshZade @nytimes

        Pay the plumber a couple times and you'll learn.

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      2. Suzi Jensen‏ @yogagirl777suzi Aug 25
        Replying to @nytimes

        The number of plastic tampon holders I find on the beach near my house is unbelievable!

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      3. suzannemo42‏ @suzannemo421 Aug 25
        Replying to @yogagirl777suzi @nytimes

        Unbelievable and disgusting

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      1. Ron‏ @300MagRon Aug 25
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        All you do is pour more chlorine on it,why does my faucet water have more chlorine in it than my 45000 gal pool when shocked!Cancer any one!

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      1. suzannemo42‏ @suzannemo421 Aug 25
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        Flush toliet paper, nothing else.

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      1. Ajoy Kumar Singha‏ @AjoyKumarSing20 Aug 25
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        https://www.fiverr.com/ajoysingha/remove-background-removal-professionally …

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      2. Wedding Experts Live‏ @GruenWeddings Aug 25
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        What about goldfish?

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      3. suzannemo42‏ @suzannemo421 Aug 25
        Replying to @GruenWeddings @nytimes

        Give them a decent burial dude or feed them to the cat

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      1. Dr. D‏ @dr_demirkan Aug 25
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        I have heard people flushing their kitchen trash even 😲 ... Totally insane...

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      1. rka1010‏ @rka1010blog Aug 25
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        the more important question is: how does water ever make it out of a treatment plant without being treated? are they incapable of separating these things into garbage? seems to me like city engineers are lazy and cheap.

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      1. Kelly Monson‏ @KellyMonson1 Aug 25
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        You should flush the racist you hired and anyone who had a hand in hiring your pet racist.

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      1. Robert Kuhn‏ @RobertK90078574 Aug 25
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        population growing exponentially with no concern over environment. All about climate control

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      1. Hell Awaits‏ @HellAwaits1 Aug 25
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        um...this was established a few decades ago....

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