How to deal with a full trash can for used toilet paper where you are not allowed to flush the toilet paper?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 28 Jul, 2023
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This is very easy – paper in the trash bin is not stuffed tightly so you can make a lot of room by compressing it with your foot. If you’re afraid of staining your shoe – first throw a piece of clean paper on top first and then compress the pile with your foot. That’s all – just compress the paper and proceed with normal toilet usage. Reporting it is at your convenience.
Note that if you try to flush the paper in toilets that are not suitable for that there’s good chance that it just won’t flush – everything else flushes but the paper will continue floating – and so you’ll find yourself guessing how to get the paper from the toilet bowl and not look like an a-hole.
It ain’t rocket science! But here’s a few things I thought were pretty obvious, if you really can’t think of them otherwise:
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Do not flush the entire bin full of paper. The sign is there to prevent bad things from happening.
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If the bin is already pretty full, just leave your paper on top of the pile and let the staff know it needs emptying. This is of course worse if the bin has no cover.
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Avoid using excessive amounts of paper. Don’t “pave” the entire seat and then wipe with massive wads of paper. These systems can usually handle a very small amount of paper so be as sparing as possible, possibly flushing once per sheet or two.
The most common reason(s) for this is poor plumbing, poor water pressure, poor septic tanks, and/or poor infrastructure that can handle “natural products” but cannot handle toilet paper. Occasionally there will be an explanation as well as a “don’t”.
Besides some rural areas and islands, this is very common in developing countries and surprisingly also in South Korea, an otherwise very advanced country. I recall being in one country (possibly South Korea?), that had special toilet paper designed to break down in the system that could not handle normal toilet paper. The signs there said only to use this special paper.
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