Used for personal hygiene, household cleaning, and cosmetic care, many wipes are flushed down toilets and can travel through wastewater systems before reaching rivers via treated discharge or sewer overflows.
Research published in ACS ES&T Water examined what the authors describe as the environmental “lifecycle” of wet wipes, tracking how often they appear in river pollution surveys, how they are labeled for consumers, and how the materials break down under environmental conditions.
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