I’ve always been suspicious of big-business-sponsored coalitions with innocent-sounding names that advocate for an industry’s side on controversial issues.
So my hackles went up a few years ago when I learned about the Responsible Flushing Alliance, a group representing the wipes industry, whose products have been and remain a significant source of blockages in sewers and other problems in wastewater facilities.Groups like these generally put the most positive spin possible on a product or practice that allegedly or actually does some kind of harm. They do this in part by manipulating facts and statistics in hopes that less-than-discerning people will accept
