We might think that what happens in the privacy of the bathroom stays there. But this is not the case when items that shouldn’t be flushed down toilets are flushed, leading to emergency plumbing ...

Flushing things down the toilet might seem like an easy way to get rid of waste, but it's not without consequences. Toilets are designed for human waste and toilet paper, but not much else.

In a world where convenience often trumps common sense, the toilet has somehow become the unsuspecting hero—or rather, victim—of our trashy tendencies. Despite plumbing systems being explicitly ...