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What do you do with toilet paper after going to the toilet?
Do you throw it in the trash can next to it, or just throw it in the toilet and flush it away?
If the toilet paper is not disposed of properly, the bathroom will actually emit a bad smell.
How to throw away toilet paper
"Toilet paper, please put it in the basket."
In some public places, we can often see this slogan.
And this is actually a reminder to people to be sure to throw toilet paper in the trash, which is also a hygiene habit that we have learned since childhood.
In the bathroom at home, the trash can is a must-have item, if the toilet does not put the trash can, it is estimated that many people will not be used to it.
It can be said that in the mainland, whether it is a bathroom at home or a public toilet, there must be a trash can.
However, most foreigners do not have trash cans in their homes, and even their public toilets do not have such signs, but instead show toilet paper to throw in the trash.
In Japan, for example, they never throw toilet paper into the paper basket.
In the minds of foreigners, they think that the garbage can in the bathroom is a very dirty thing, after all, the toilet is cleaned every day, but the garbage can may only be thrown once every few days.
So, in this process, it is actually very unhygienic.
Besides, the surface of the toilet paper we use is actually covered with a lot of bacteria and dirt, and if it is placed in an airtight trash can for a long time, this is the favorite environment for bacteria.
Studies have found that there are actually a lot of E. coli and staphylococci on the toilet paper we use.
Especially in a humid or warm bathroom, bacteria can grow very quickly, and it is likely that they will already invade the entire bathroom before we even know it.
Even if our trash cans have lids, there is still no way to stop the spread and spread of bacteria, and even the tooth cups and toothbrushes we use will be contaminated with those invisible bacteria.
It can be said that the long-term stacking of trash cans will not only lead to the accumulation of bacteria, but also affect the cleanliness of the bathroom, such as "smell".
Because when people use paper baskets, they generally wait until they are full before throwing them away, and during this period, bacteria will grow indefinitely, and they will also emit an unpleasant "smell".
But if you throw it directly into the toilet, it is also very easy to cause the toilet to clog.
Once it is blocked, it will affect our normal life, the spread of odor will be more serious, and even unclogging the toilet is a very "troublesome and complicated" thing.
This is actually a difficult problem to choose, if you throw it in the trash, it will produce bacteria that affect our health, and if you throw it in the toilet, then there is a high chance of clogging.
How do we choose?
What should I do?
In fact, whether toilet paper can be thrown into the toilet depends on what kind of paper we use.
Now when it comes to toilet paper, what we think of now is basically white roll paper, or toilet paper, which looks very clean and does not have any "dirty things".
But that's not the case with toilet paper a few decades ago.
I wonder if people in the seventies and eighties had that kind of toilet paper that was particularly large and very rough when they were young?
At that time, aqua toilets were basically used in many places, and the use of flushing toilets was very rare, and it can even be said that it was "very rare".
If you throw such paper in the trash, you don't even have to think about the consequences, it will definitely clog.
Therefore, in such a situation, the trash can is actually very necessary.
But with the development of technology, the material of the paper we use has become very soft, and now there are even some "soluble" toilet paper.
As soon as this paper comes into contact with water, it will melt immediately and can be easily washed down.
We can imagine that sometimes when we do laundry, we often forget the toilet paper in our pockets, and after washing the clothes, we will find that the original toilet paper has become "shredded paper scrap".
In fact, this also vividly describes to us what will become of toilet paper after it is washed with water.
If we throw such paper into the toilet, it will definitely be broken and flushed away, and there is a high probability that the toilet will not be blocked.
Therefore, when deciding whether to throw toilet paper into the toilet, we need to determine the nature of our toilet paper.
Generally speaking, the design of household standard toilet paper is actually originally designed for convenience and hygiene, and it can be flushed away.
Not only that, but the toilet paper can melt directly into "flocculent" in less than 15 seconds, which is also the data that has been rigorously tested.
However, if the quality of the paper you buy is poor, it is actually very difficult to melt, and it is also very likely to clog the toilet.
In the eyes of many people, there is no big difference between rolling paper and pumping paper except for the price, and some people even think that pumping paper is a kind of more expensive paper made by merchants.
But in fact, the two types of paper are indeed different.
What we call toilet paper, in fact, paper is roll paper, which is made of recycled paper or virgin pulp as raw materials for production, and pumping paper is a kind of tissue paper, which can only be made with virgin pulp.
Comparatively speaking, toilet paper is not absorbent, and basically it will rot when it gets wet, while the humidity toughness of toilet paper is very good.
For example, the face towels and makeup remover pads we usually use, these papers are very tough, and they will not fall off even if they are exposed to water, so they cannot be thrown into the toilet.
Besides, we also need to look at the suction power of our own toilet.
In the past, the momentum of the toilet was actually very bad, whether it was the momentum or other aspects, it was not as good as it is now, even if you don't throw toilet paper into the toilet, sometimes it will still block.
However, with the development of technology, today's toilet flushing technology is becoming more and more powerful, as long as we make sure that the paper we use is soluble, then even if it is thrown in the toilet, it will not cause the toilet to clog.
In our daily life, in fact, there are still people who pour water directly into the toilet to flush the toilet in order to save water.
This seemingly very smart thing actually hides a lot of problems behind it.
You know, adding water after flushing the toilet bowl itself is a procedure that has been set at the factory.
But when we flush with water by ourselves, then the toilet can only sense the flush, but we can't add water to the tank, and the flush of the toilet will be greatly affected after a long time.
Therefore, although flushing the toilet is a very small thing, there is also a lot of knowledge behind it.
For the sake of the health of our families, we also need to understand some of the things behind this.
Information sources:
Qingtong perspective "Can toilet paper be thrown into the toilet?" Finally there is an answer! 》 2022-07-27
Science refutes rumors "After going to the toilet, can toilet paper flush the toilet directly?" I'll do an experiment for you"2022-07-01