When you push the button or press the handle to flush a toilet, you probably don’t give much more thought to whatever is swirling down — but a Kitchener, Ont., engineer thinks maybe you should.
Barbara Robinson says she wants to change the national plumbing code so that all washrooms have a trash can in each stall. This would encourage people to throw out sanitary products and wipes instead of flushing them, which in turn can clog the sewers.
“It’s a huge problem,” Robinson, founder of Norton Engineering, said in an interview on CBC Kitchener-Waterloo’s The Morning Edition. “We get blockages in sewers, we get fatbergs, pump stations shut
