What do you put down your toilet
What do you put down your toilet
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Spare tyre

Original Poster:

12,033 posts

153 months

Monday 1st December 2025
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Other than turds and pee

I was chatting to a chum about our recent blocked drain incident, kid dropped a toy down, it got flushed then back up - much fun

He lives in a a flat and puts all food waste down there, reason being it’s a ball ache to take it to the external bins, down the loo keeps the bin dry

I have never thought of putting leftovers down the loo due to the risk of blockage

He then went on to tell me that all his confidential waste (bank statements etc) get ripped up into pieces when he’s having a turd, then flushed, again it’s never crossed my mind


Am I the only one using a toilet as a toilet or have I found a new life hack in talking to my mate

trickywoo

13,608 posts

253 months

Monday 1st December 2025
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Chum sounds weird but this is PH so there will probably be loads along in a bit saying they do all that and some.

Alorotom

12,685 posts

210 months

Monday 1st December 2025
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Can’t say mine is used for anything other than the obvious but I can kind of see the point with some food waste.

Clearly a turkey carcass etc. would be a bit of a nightmare to flush!

Paperwork though??! Wtf?!

Super Sonic

12,192 posts

77 months

Monday 1st December 2025
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When he says his bank statements etc get torn into small pieces I'm assuming he means 4" squares.

gtidriver

3,681 posts

210 months

Monday 1st December 2025
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Food waste goes down along with cat st and pee clumps from the litter box, old toilet roll holders/inners.

Philplop

377 posts

197 months

Monday 1st December 2025
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Jesus.

Toilet paper, pee and poo, are the only things that you should flush.

Paperwork doesn’t break down in water.
Cardboard toilet roll tubes don’t break down in water.
Food waste causes blockages.
Wet wipes are essentially plastic and don’t break down.
Animal cack contains parasites that are resistant to water treatment processes and are harmful to humans.

st, piss and bogroll. It’s not complicated.

The_Doc

5,971 posts

243 months

Monday 1st December 2025
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I store my faeces on site, so it's limited to numbers 1 and 2 and bog roll.
No wipes, minimal cooking fat, nowt else.

When your business is your business, you make it your business to sort out the st.



About £150 every 2 yrs to come and take it away.
Water bill is £13/month

Castrol for a knave

7,041 posts

114 months

Monday 1st December 2025
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I usually flush nappies, sanitary towels, paper towels, gum, old phones, unpaid bills, junk mail, my ex's sweater, hopes, dreams or goldfish down the toilet

TameRacingDriver

20,114 posts

295 months

Monday 1st December 2025
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Someone at my old work dropped his work iphone down the bog and attempted to flush it. This biohazard was then passed to me by the floor manager who found it a short time later. Charming fker, eh?

TVR Sagaris

1,260 posts

255 months

Monday 1st December 2025
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gtidriver said:
Food waste goes down along with cat st and pee clumps from the litter box, old toilet roll holders/inners.


You put these down the toilet? Do they even flush? Do you not have a bin?

Hunky Dory

1,083 posts

228 months

Monday 1st December 2025
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Castrol for a knave said:
hopes, dreams
rofl

Russet Grange

2,624 posts

49 months

Monday 1st December 2025
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We've got a sceptic tank, so whilst I think it's fine to flush piss and poo down there, the tank isn't so sure.

hidetheelephants

33,712 posts

216 months

Tuesday 2nd December 2025
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I'm starting to have sympathy for Thames Water, no wonder sewage works keep getting clogged up.

Tisy

1,590 posts

15 months

Tuesday 2nd December 2025
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Russet Grange said:
We've got a sceptic tank, so whilst I think it's fine to flush piss and poo down there, the tank isn't so sure.
smile

daqinggregg

5,335 posts

152 months

Tuesday 2nd December 2025
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Yesterday while taking a shower, the soap slipped out of my hand, arked through the air and went straight down the khazi, due to it aerodynamics and slippery surface there was no need to flush.

With no new soap in the bathroom, I had to perform the walk of shame to the kitchen, in the buff, dripping wet; looking on the bright side, being poor, it wasn’t very far.

That’s about as exciting as it ever gets.

rodericb

8,515 posts

149 months

Tuesday 2nd December 2025
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Philplop said:
Jesus.

Toilet paper, pee and poo, are the only things that you should flush.

Paperwork doesn t break down in water.
Cardboard toilet roll tubes don t break down in water.
Food waste causes blockages.
Wet wipes are essentially plastic and don t break down.
Animal cack contains parasites that are resistant to water treatment processes and are harmful to humans.

st, piss and bogroll. It s not complicated.
Turds are "food waste" to an extent. The means to which is transported from point of origination to their resting place needs to be appropriate, and what is transported by those means needs to, in turn, be appropriate. As an earlier post said, you're not going to flush a turkey carcass but some left over peas and gravy? If you have an "insinkerator" or a macerator for food scraps it's all ending up in the same pipes....

StuntmanMike

13,563 posts

174 months

Tuesday 2nd December 2025
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Hunky Dory said:
Castrol for a knave said:
hopes, dreams
rofl
roflrofl

Skyedriver

22,252 posts

305 months

Tuesday 2nd December 2025
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TVR Sagaris said:
gtidriver said:
Food waste goes down along with cat st and pee clumps from the litter box, old toilet roll holders/inners.


You put these down the toilet? Do they even flush? Do you not have a bin?
Recycling surely!!

Skyedriver

22,252 posts

305 months

Tuesday 2nd December 2025
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Russet Grange said:
We've got a sceptic tank, so whilst I think it's fine to flush piss and poo down there, the tank isn't so sure.
We also on a septic tank.
Previous occupier must have had a liking for those cotton bud things!!

TwigtheWonderkid

47,944 posts

173 months

Tuesday 2nd December 2025
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Isn't the toilet the traditional burial ground equivalent for the deceased goldfish?