‘Flushable’ wet wipes: the plight of the sewerage firm

Yorkshire Water technicians say they have unblocked sewers 50,888 times so far this year. And nearly a third of these were avoidable, caused by supposedly ‘flushable’ wet wipes being flushed down the toilet.

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