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[–] 76 points 1 day ago (9 children)

So it's OK to pee in the bin is what I'm getting from this

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  • [–] 32 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Why would you do that when there’s a perfectly good sink right there?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    The sign implies the bin is for anything besides human feces. Human pee would be fine. As would dog semen. And dog feces. And dog blood. Hell you could put a whole dog in the bin as long as it has no human feces.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago* (3 children)

    Actually it doesn't specify human anything, it just says "number 2" which, logically, would encompass fecal matter from all species that have separate tracts for urine and feces.

    Therefore, one could surmise that only feces from species with a single tract, such as birds or fish, would be acceptable to place in the bin.

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  • [–] 57 points 1 day ago (17 children)

    To be fair, when I went on a vacation to Mexico, the hotel indicated exactly the opposite...

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  • [–] 40 points 1 day ago (16 children)

    I mean you still don't put the whole dump in the bin though, just the paper you used. Pretty common in a lot of countries.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 day ago (13 children)

    Saw a sign saying "dont throw toilet paper into the toilet" in a middle eastern country last summer and was very confused.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 day ago (11 children)

    The pipes are very narrow then and there is risk of clogging

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  • [–] 8 points 21 hours ago (7 children)

    Toilet paper also requires specific processing of the waste water. It's normally screened off and sent to landfill when it reaches the treatment plant, but I imagine many countries wouldn't have this infrastructure.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 hours ago (6 children)

    In the USA anyway toilet paper is legally required to dissolve in water within a certain time frame. Maybe this is not the case in other countries

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

    It's still screened off and sent to landfil. "dissolve" isn't really possible with paper, just breaking into smaller parts.

    I'm no expert, but I'm guessing the rules are about the pipes between flushing and treatment, as I can imagine a slurry of toilet paper bits is a lot less likely to create blockages than a mountain of wet wipes.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    Yes, that makes sense. Not dissolve in the technical sense of form a solution in water, but more of the layperson sense of "disintegrate" into that paper slurrey and not cause blockages in pipes.

    We all know that if you have too much paper and not enough water, it will block a pipe. But given typical usage, it should be safe for USA-code pipes since it disintegrates into that "slurrey."

    TIL that the water treatment plant screens it out and disposes of it! I imagine this is part of the process where they screen out other solids as well

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago

    Yeah, there's a video about it here: https://www.watercare.co.nz/home/about-us/what-we-do/wastewater

    It mentions the screening that removes anything bigger than 3mm, including toys, passports, and cash.

    This isn't my local one, my local had a massive failure recently and is a bit fucked so I can't seem to find the page they have on it, but the page also talked about screening off the solids and mentions toilet paper specifically. My local one also sends the biological solids (the shit) to landfill after water has been removed, which is different than the above one that is apparently using that to turn a quarry into a park.

    And just to show it's not only here, the wikipedia page talks about screening as the first step too.

    Toilet paper is biodegradable, and laws around it may also be because of the widespread use of septic tanks which will break down the toilet paper. But septic tanks only work for very low volumes. As mentioned in the above video, wastewater leaves 12 hours after arriving, so the process has to be very quick. You aren't going to want to pump toilet paper pieces out into the harbour where people swim and lay on the beach, so it's gotta be screened off and sent to landfill.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

    ask any water treatment plant worker and they will tell you, that is a dream, toilet paper shouldnt be flushed at any situation

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  • [–] 23 points 14 hours ago (7 children)

    behind every sign is a story

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  • [–] 5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

    You run into this a lot working in agriculture. Cultural differences.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    Sometimes class elitism is called cultural differences.

    Often times people (or towns, or cities) who use bins for toilet paper is because their plumbing can't handle the toilet paper being thrown into it, and upgrading it is just prohibitively expensive.

    And then they get called gross, or weird, or outdated culture, when it really is just "I didn't choose where I was born."

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  • [–] 3 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

    Except if it was just generated by a sloperator for a dumb joke, which is almost certainly the case here :/

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  • [–] 17 points 1 day ago

    Just because you found this in a workplace toilet doesn't mean the workplace put it there.

    Great way to troll your fellow workers. Especially if you make the inverse of this sign and replace only some of the copies.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    I’ve heard of places where they have you put the used tp in a trash can because the plumbing can’t handle it.

    But aside from that, and from tossing a dirty diaper in the trash can, I can’t imagine how else you might wind up putting the poop anywhere other than the toilet.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    That's the majority of South America.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    Maybe it is because I am not a native english speaker, but why is the feces/poop/shit called "number 2 waste"? Never heard of that expression.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Growing up, number 1 is pee and #2 = code brown

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  • [–] 52 points 1 day ago (1 child)
  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    "Keeps the toilet clean"

    Huh?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago

    A roommate's mum was visiting from SEA and at one point we noticed that that bathroom was smelling like shit. We discovered a bunch of used toilet paper in the little trash-can for tampons and stuff.

    Had to ask our roommate to please explain to his mum how European toilets work.

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    I'd say that AI slop belongs in the bin

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  • [–] 10 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

    Why would I put poo in the feet washing machine though?

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  • [–] 5 points 8 hours ago

    To be fair I've blundered across some toilet atrocities over the years that would've made me wish they'd just used the trash can instead.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Toilets waste a lot of water. It belongs in a compost pile.

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  • Excuse me, WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT THE BIN IS FOR TRASH AND THE TOILET IS FOR POOP‽

    I've lived completely deceived, swindled, scammed... I won't believe in anything again...

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I'm not disagreeing with the overall message, but some of the reasons listed here seem dubious. How exactly does putting it in the toilet help keep the toilets clean or help the plumbing work properly?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    OK. Where does a diaper go?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago

    looks ai to me

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  • [–] 3 points 2 hours ago

    I once worked at a place where we had to put signs up telling people not to put paper towels in the urinals. Three of us had a coordinated investigation going on to figure out who was doing it, we were down to only two or three suspects before the signs went up.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 hours ago

    They clearly doing that on purpose. Most likely to send a message.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago

    Doing God’s work.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    In the toilet? Clearly it belongs in the bin. Didn't they read the sign?

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  • [–] 10 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    Recent immigrants from countries with bad plumbing sometimes continue to throw out toilet paper. The pipes in some countries can't handle it

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  • [–] 2 points 8 hours ago

    Right, got it, so I pee in the bins? I mean I must do, or else what are they there for?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago

    Tbf, they're incorrect that flooding poop helps plumbing do anything. This is obvious propaganda from Big Clog.

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