Anchorage city officials and utility workers say so-called “flushable” wet wipes are wreaking havoc on the city’s wastewater treatment systems.
As it turns out, the wipes aren’t so flushable after all.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of disposable wet wipes has increased across the country. But the wipes and the expense they cause – in Anchorage’s case, tens of thousands of dollars annually – are the subject of an effort nationwide to better address their impact on wastewater systems…