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Originally Posted by Reaper
By flushing your tissue you put more strain on the wastewater treatment system because of the increased load of solids in the water as facial tissue is designed to stand up to some degree of moisture while toilet paper is not. To boot, since human post consumer waste (poop) is not safe for compost the tissues end up in the landfill at the end of the day. So, all you are doing is creating more demand and strain on water resources.
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Interesting. Perhaps I should stop then. However, the tissues would still end up at the landfill at the end of the day since I don't drive and live in an apartment so don't have curbside recycling. It's quite the conundrum.
Do we really recylce used tissue anyways?