What do you think of the idea of putting your used toilet paper in the trash can instead of flushing it down the toilet?

Is what we do in Greece; putting it in a dedicated waste bucket (with a lid).
The sewer system is not up to par (especially (or exclusively; I’m not sure) on the islands.
You get used to it.
When I’m back in the Netherlands again, I always am reaching for the bucket, the first couple of days.

The SO and I spent over a week in Cyprus (an island country south of Turkey) earlier this year. The apt. we rented required disposing toilet paper in a bin vs. flushing it.

If flushing it can cause problems with the sewage system, then we need to adapt and not look back. Perhaps it includes developing a better toilet paper or some other solution. There are countries that don’t even use TP.

There types of toilet paper that will not clog the sewage system, others will.

Here’ what the Plumber Pros say about toilet paper in a sewer pipe.

Thanks for the share @Tropical_Willie.

It’s common in much of Mexico where the sewer systems are inadequate (or non-existent, depending on where you are). But there’s no reason to do it around where I live, yet it happens at work (I will sometimes see soiled toilet paper in the garbage cans in the customer bathrooms, and yes it’s disgusting). The fact is there are a lot of Mexican immigrants around here and I’m sure some of them are in the habit of doing it. I’d like to put up a sign in the bathrooms saying “it’s okay to flush toilet paper”!

What if your sewer system was perfectly adequate. Would you still do it?

This is also common practice in China where the plumbing can’t cope with wads of loo roll. It seems pretty disgusting but then so is this

If flushed, it breaks down with the rest of the sludge and is sprayed out onto a field in the countryside (after being treated at a sewage treatment plant), so I don’t have a problem with it.

It goes into special dumping stations where, I imagine, it goes to water treatment plants.

@flutherother well, duh. If you flush diapers down the toilet, what do you expect!

With even a halfway decent septic system, the toilet paper will not only break down, but is also providing nutrients for the bacteria that break down the rest of the waste. Now the Cottonelle wet wipes (what I lovingly refer to as butt wipes) don’t break down very quickly and can actually cause problems in a septic tank or reprocessing system. Want to bag those up? Probably a good idea.

When I was small, the farmhouse Iived in was old, and plumbing, well, very early American. I was informed to put in trash. School has that power flush though, and I was happy to send it away.

It’s a shit idea.

…and yet, a well executed plan.

No. Ignorant.

Sounds pretty crappy…

This idea stinks.

They invented toilets so you would NOT have to keep shit, piss, and associated stuff in the house.
I am for progress, not regress.
Any part of the world that routinely keeps a trash can for shit is not keeping up.

I did that with my pets, only if the trash can is covered with disposable plastic bag. Not a hypocrite but I would think the idea of human feces in my trash can is too much to tolerate. Where I live, we clean our butts with water and soap, hence the local perception of how gross it is for Westerners to simply wipe their butts with tissue. Just imagine smell and the feeling of stickiness down there…

Not a big fan but when in Rome…....

On sailboats when cruising you often are instructed to do so the bilge doesn’t get backed up. It gets put in bags and bins.

When we used to camp, if we were at a spot that didn’t have sewer hook up we would put toilet paper in the trash so we didn’t have to unhook and go to the dump station any sooner. Also in that case, we would use the camp ground facilities more than using our own bathroom. If our spot had its own sewer, it wasn’t an issue. But we always used the special toilet paper.