Companies like Cottonelle and Charmin heavily advertise their flushable wipes. They sound so convenient. But plumbers make a lot of house calls that involve clogged toilets, backed up sewer lines, and ...

INDIANAPOLIS (CONSUMER REPORTS) — They promise convenience and a cleaner clean—but those so-called flushable wipes may be wreaking havoc on your plumbing, the environment, and your wallet. Despite ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (CONSUMER REPORTS) - They promise convenience and a cleaner clean—but those so-called flushable wipes may be wreaking havoc on your plumbing, the environment, and your wallet. Despite ...

New York - Flushable wipes-they're marketed as an alternative to toilet paper and they make lots of promises. Charmin's Freshmates say they're "septic safe." Cottonelle's fresh wipes claim to "break ...

Consumer Reports checked out four flushable wipes from Cottonelle, Charmin, Scott and Equate. They all say they're flushable and make claims like "sewer and septic safe" and "breaks up after flushing.

Increasingly popular bathroom wipes -- pre-moistened towelettes that are often advertised as flushable -- are being blamed for creating clogs and backups in sewer systems around the nation. Wastewater ...

The San Antonio River Authority reminded residents to stop flushing wipes down their toilets. Wipes are causing "significant issues" at the river authority's wastewater treatment plants, according to ...

A federal judge in Brooklyn has ruled that litigation accusing Kimberly-Clark, Procter & Gamble and Costco of selling moist wipes falsely marketed as "flushable" can proceed as a class action. Sign up ...