My father is a plumber and I've asked him about this. He says if your plumbing is less than 50 years old (and not septic) it shouldn't cause any problems.

that's not true unless you have a toilet macerator or a personal tank on your house only pads must go in the bin, 90% of toilets in the UK accept them and the fact you don't know that is disturbing, who told you they didn't? if you're just going off the fact there are bins in public Loos they're for pads and applicators/ wrappers etc.

I haven't given a rat's ass whether or not the in-home plumbing can cope, ever since my friend, who is a sewage engineer, told me that the gross job they give to newbies is scraping used pads and tampons out of the filters by hand. I just can't do that to someone.

I used to... until there was a clog in our line somewhere and it backed up onto the sidewalk thru the sewer grate. Not sure who was more embarrassed by the awkward convo about no longer flushing used tampons following the back-up - my dad or me.

You can flush a tampon just not a pad tampons are fine

If you have relatively new pipes then tampons can be flushed. My mums house has really old pipes and the pipes get clogged when one gets flushed down.

In Canada, most sewer systems can handle the tampon itself. Honestly I didn't even know some people didn't flush them until I was older. You can flush the absorbent part, just not the applicator

You had to "teach" your mother? How arrogant of you. Tampons can go in the toilet, smart-ass, now apologize to your mother for being such a twerp!

My husband works in wastewater treatment and seriously PLEASE DON'T FLUSH TAMPONS! Like a previous comment said, they really do cause problems at treatment centers and have to be removed prior to anything else. Most things that are called "flushable" are only that, flushable. They don't break down in the water and clog things up down the line.

actually they can...