That was the question posed by Ms. Tanya Conley’s fourth grade science class at Hebrew Academy of Tidewater. These smart students recognize that anything that doesn’t dissolve in water could possibly clog home plumbing lines and sewer pipes, resulting in a costly mess.
Students placed samples of toilet paper, baby wipes, and flushable wipes in water bottles and shook the bottles for one minute throughout a two week period to test for “dispersibility”— or how much the paper and wipes would break apart and dissolve.
The results – all toilet paper samples completely disintegrated, some flushable wipes broke down but did not disintegrate, and the baby wipes remained intact.
The recommendation from these fourth graders – never flush wipes!
