Could FTC and Supreme Court Send Flushable Wipes Down the Toilet?
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Flushable wipes have been blamed for one of social media’s most disgusting phenomena the 15-ton “fatberg” of kitchen grease and wet wipes that took six months to fully dislodge from a sewer system outside London in 2013. Now, recent actions by the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Supreme Court could really send the business down the toilet in the U.S.
The FTC last week announced a consent agreement with Nice-Pak, maker of private-label flushable wipes for Costco, Target, CVS and BJ’s Wholesale Club, to no longer market wipes as flushable without proof they’ll “disperse in a sufficiently short amount of time after flushing” to prevent damage to plumbing, septic systems, sewer pipes or wastewater treatment systems.
“This is the first case we brought in this area,” said FTC spokesman Mitchell Katz, who likened it to other actions around the commission’s Green Guides on environmental claims. “I can’t say if it will be the last.”
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