Dorothee
Germany
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In one of their latest episodes the German TV-show ‘SONNENSEITE’ warns about things many people make go down the drain even though they shouldn’t. Please note that some of these things were mentioned due to current incidents in which people and/ or animals were hurt or at least a lot of material damage was done: Don’t pour noodles down the drain as they absorb water and turn into a clog in your drain pipes. Also rice – even boiled rice – contains a sort of bacteria that is harmful to plants. Small pieces of egg shells often stick together and cause a clog in your drain pipe. When poured down the drain milk absorbs the oxygen from the water. This already caused a mass dying of fish in a lake somewhere in Great Britain. If you bake things yourself, you may know that water and flour become a very sticky mass and thus flour never should go down the drain. The same goes for coffee ground for the same reasons. Palm oil, most other sorts of oil, fat (for example from meat) and salad dressings (especially those containing sugar) stick with the inside of your drain pipe and clog it. Even worse is that some of these oils and fats can get stuck with other sorts of waste in the drain pipes. The clog isn’t even the biggest problem with this, but for example in Australia there already were cases where this mass of oil and other things made its way to the ocean, to shores and to beaches. This highly toxic mush then killed turtles, fowls and also domestic animals like dogs and cats that just wanted to taste a small piece to see if it was edible. Also small children became ill after just touching this thing and not washing their hands properly afterwards. Medicine may dissolve in your gastric accid, but that doesn’t mean it will dissolve in any fluid. Thus medicine never should go down the drain due to all the chemicals it contains. Other things mentioned were hair, small pieces of stickers, latex, water-absorbing material like sponge, cigars.
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