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Old 07/16/04, 07:00 PM
 
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For the no paper in the toilet folks, have you ever tried vermiculture. If you put a worm bin in the bathroom you can put your paper products in the bin and the worms will eat them up. No smell, and no emptying or throwing in the garbage.
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Old 07/17/04, 06:56 PM
 
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We use Cottonelle. It says it is sewer and septic system safe. It's soft, and you can get it in double rolls so you don't have to change it as often. I am amazed that it is only one ply. I grew up on two ply and vowed I would never buy one ply, but they sent a sample in the mail and that was all it took.
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Old 07/17/04, 08:18 PM
 
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The folks that put toliet paper in the trash are, handling a BIO HAZZARD . and in most places it is illegal to put hazzardous waste in the thrash, just think how LOW LIFE that is to handle, what do you do when the dog rips the trash up ,it would make sense to flush it as it does NO harm to the system if it is working right. toliot paper is made to break down as a biological type item. the sewer plants don't have problems with toliot paper ,just condoms and tampons, and the filters from tobbacco products .
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Old 07/17/04, 10:25 PM
 
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Folks, I'm truly shocked no one suggested this: have the other members of the household put the toilet paper in the trash! Bink, you said "we" are building a house, so it sounds like there will be at at least one other person besides our mother living with you. So it reduces your septic tank toilet paper load by at least 66%.

Also, at 84 years of age there is a good chance you won't have her living with you long enough to do any damage, especially if she is the only one using an unfortunate choice of toilet paper. So I wouldn't do anything to make her last (hopefully) decade or so too uncomfortable, emotionally or physically.

Concerning what James Dilley said: I have put my toilet paper in the trash in the past, but lately I've gotten a little lazy. My reasoning is that everyone I have ever known who used disposable diapers put them into the trash after use.
What else can you do with them? (We used cloth diapers as much as possible.)Also, what about people who use adult incontinent products like "Attends". I worked in a nursing home for a few months a few years ago, and their incontinent control products were put into the regular trash...
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Old 07/18/04, 12:02 AM
 
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We've just been doing what the health inspector told us to do, and that was to use Ridx at least twice a year. Have no problems, and I know the system was checked about 3 years ago cause I had to replant my flower bed. And we still have the old system on the other side of the house that we could use temporarily if this one ever fails for whatever reason.
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Old 07/18/04, 07:57 AM
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For the no paper in the toilet folks, have you ever tried vermiculture. If you put a worm bin in the bathroom you can put your paper products in the bin and the worms will eat them up. No smell, and no emptying or throwing in the garbage.
Now I'm trying to imagine her reaction to a "worm bin" in the bathroom.
Though to tell the truth, I don't know what one looks like. Does it really look like a bin of worms, or a box of earth, or what?

Thank you folks for all your responses. You've given me enough ideas here so that I should be able to come up with something that will work for all of us.
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