Handy at home, trouble at the treatment plant.They’re flushable and disposable wipes. Despite recent cooperation between the wastewater profession and the INDA (Association of Non-Woven Fabrics Industry), they’re causing clogging problems in sewer systems and wastewater treatment facilities coast to coast.According to Rob Villee of the Plainfield (New Jersy) Area Regional Sewer Authority, the Water Environment Federation and INDA are drafting a flushability guidance document and are developing a stewardship process with corporate sustainability personnel to lessen the affect of nonflushable wipes (baby wipes) that are getting flushed.“On the good news side, we are seeing lots of new flushable substrates
