daniel_callahan@jlai.lu to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days agoSpain aims to ban flushing of wet wipes, with manufacturers paying for cleanupwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square54linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squareWanderingThoughts@europe.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·13 days agoYep. Make it the manufacturers’ problem. They only care when it hits their wallet. Even if they pass on the costs, it’ll make the wipes that actually dissolve properly cheaper and these are exempt.
minus-squarexylol@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoHow do you make a wet wipe dissolve when its wet without dissolving when its wet
minus-squarefaintwhenfree@lemmus.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoI understand it’s “wet” from some alcohol/aldehydes and not from water.
minus-squareWolf314159@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoWho is out there wiping their ass with %100 ethanol?
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoGets it fucking clean, I’ll tell you that.
minus-squaresigezayaq@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-211 days agoI’m looking at a package of wet wipes right now and it says “99% water” on them
minus-squarefaintwhenfree@lemmus.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoMaybe my understanding is wrong, and I don’t use wet wipes that often, but the ones I have I bought like a year ago 60% ethanol v/v.
minus-squaresigezayaq@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 days agoI see, maybe there are different types then. Mine are for an actual baby.
minus-squarefaintwhenfree@lemmus.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 days agoOk, so I checked a superstore near me, and my updated understanding is anything disinfecting is alcohol based be it for skin or for for objects, things designed for cleaning skin or to be “refreshing/fragrant” are mostly water based. However there are skin cleaning products that are marketed more towards deep clean or dirt/oil/grease etc are almost always alcohol based. cleaning objects intended wet wipes also mostly alcohol based. But if marketed as “gentle” could be water based. So baby wipes being meant to clean skin and be “gentle”, it makes sense that they are water based.
Yep. Make it the manufacturers’ problem. They only care when it hits their wallet. Even if they pass on the costs, it’ll make the wipes that actually dissolve properly cheaper and these are exempt.
How do you make a wet wipe dissolve when its wet without dissolving when its wet
I understand it’s “wet” from some alcohol/aldehydes and not from water.
Who is out there wiping their ass with %100 ethanol?
Gets it fucking clean, I’ll tell you that.
I’m looking at a package of wet wipes right now and it says “99% water” on them
Maybe my understanding is wrong, and I don’t use wet wipes that often, but the ones I have I bought like a year ago 60% ethanol v/v.
I see, maybe there are different types then. Mine are for an actual baby.
Ok, so I checked a superstore near me, and my updated understanding is
So baby wipes being meant to clean skin and be “gentle”, it makes sense that they are water based.