Probably because of the torrential advertisement in the electronic media, the condom is widely used in urban areas. You can take the negligently disposed scum-bags seen here and there around your place for proof.
Yes, people learnt using the sheath to prevent Sexually Transmitted Infections and unwanted pregnancies. However, they haven’t learnt how to use it properly. Proper use includes the proper disposal of it. Else why do they idiotically throw the rubber in their neighbour’s garden or in the roadside?
When I see the plastic-coated colourful packets of condom cast aside in public places, I feel embarrassed. The intensity of embarrassment is higher when it is used rubbers flashing on in open.
How will you feel when you see a little kid untying a used rubber and filling air in it? Of course, with his mouth! What will you see your son or daughter doing so? I have seen such things many times.
Idiots they are who do not dispose condoms properly.
Do people need to be individually told to dispose the rubbers properly after use?
Let me begin the campaign then.
DON’T THROW CONDOM IN PUBLIC PLACES AFTER YOU USE IT.
YOU TIE THE RUBBER AND FLUSH IT.
YOU LET THE MUNICIPALITY CARRY IT TO DUMPING SITE.
Will government and non-government organisations take the essence of proper disposal used condoms seriously? Why not to add up a line at the end of advertisements of condom in TV and radio then?
“DISPOSE CONDOM PROPERLY. DON’T THROW IT HAPHAZARDLY.”
October 29, 2006 at 9:35 pm
I agree. But why all the nonsense about not flushing your used rubbers. For years it has been the commonly used disposal. Now it is a no-no, why I don’t know. It works perfectly well. I know I have flushed hundreds ofrubbers after sex for years without any problem.
November 3, 2006 at 9:20 pm
YOU TIE THE RUBBER AND FLUSH IT.
not correct! cause they are not biodegradable.
overall, a good observation though. will comment after i have gone thru rest of the material.
November 3, 2006 at 9:20 pm
YOU TIE THE RUBBER AND FLUSH IT.
NOT CORRECT!
cause condoms are not biodegradable.
overall, a good observation though. will comment after i have gone thru rest of the material.
November 4, 2006 at 5:17 pm
Yes rubber is not easily degraded by microbes. But it’s better to flush than to throw it in open.
However, if the sheaths can be collected and processed further that will be environment friendly.
Thanks for the comment Tara.
August 22, 2009 at 2:07 pm
I have used hundreda of condoms in my love life and have dosposed of all of them down the toilet and nevber had any problems doing so. Seems the best disposal.
October 13, 2009 at 5:24 pm
It always seemed more sensible to flush used condoms down rge toilet, than to leave them where others might find them and handle them improperly.
January 7, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Seriously, it’s really wrong to flush condoms. Latex IS biodegradable (it’s made from rubber trees) but ONLY if it’s in air (i.e. in landfill). Latex doesn’t biodegrade underwater, the condom just ends up in rivers or on beaches. Not cool. Bag it and bin it.
March 1, 2007 at 12:24 am
The only positive way to assure that a hazardous item like a condom filled with possibily contaminated seman placing it positivly out of reach of others is to flush it down the toilet after use. All toilets can dispose of condoms without problems, contrary to stories of blockage etc.
March 5, 2007 at 5:54 pm
This business of yard keepers to clean streets.
April 2, 2007 at 11:52 pm
I am really having difficulty understanding all the info on the internet warning not to dispose of used condoms by flushng dow the toilet. For years it has been the prefered disposal by most condom users including me. I doubt if you can chahge peoples habits. Dispite warnings rubbers flush away with no trouble and do not plug up toilets etc.
May 5, 2007 at 3:58 pm
I thought my girlfriend was paranoic when she worried about our used rubbers discarded in her waste basket. She requested that I flush them down the toilet—which is a much better disposal that I highly recommend.
May 5, 2007 at 6:29 pm
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September 28, 2007 at 11:12 am
It is nice reading about condoms disposal.
Do you have some information on studies carried out disposal of used condoms anywhere in the world that can help us come up with appropriate strategies, here in Uganda.
November 30, 2008 at 8:47 pm
it fun finding used condoms on the ground
December 9, 2008 at 9:32 pm
I have yet to find a toilet that won’t flusj a used condom OK
December 19, 2008 at 6:32 pm
For years the recommended disposal of used condoms was to flush them down the toilet.It works without fail and is my prefered disposal.
January 1, 2009 at 1:14 pm
“… flushing condoms down the toilet
is a bad idea. They can clog your plumbing or end up in the water supply.”
Go Ask Alice!: Environmentally-friendly condom disposal
http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/2311.html
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“During normal weather conditions, items such as tampons, cotton buds
and condoms which are flushed down the toilet will remain in the
sewers and eventually end up at a sewage treatment plant.”
Marine
http://www.ukceed.org/bagit.htm
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“Wrap a used condom in a tissue and throw it in the trash… Condoms
can choke the pipes if flushed down the toilet.”
Condoms Tips
http://www.drcondoms.com/condomtips/
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“… condoms and the like can create problems at sewage treatment
plants or with your septic tank.”
What You Can Do ? At Home
http://www.ec.gc.ca/eco/wycd/home9_e.html
January 1, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Oops… Sorry about the links in that previous post. Should have checked them before copying them.
The bottom line is that you have to be pretty daft to believe that flushing a condom down the toilet is a good idea. People seem to believe that just because you can’t see them anymore they must have magically disappeared. (i suppose i shouldn’t be too surprised because that seems to be how most people go through life)
THINK PEOPLE!
A toilet isn’t magic. The water and waste has to go SOMEWHERE. And condoms stick around.
IF they make it through your plumbing they are going to end up in a septic tank or a sewage treatment plant (we hope). In any case, they need to be removed from the sewage at some point and… guess what… they will be incinerated or dumped in a landfill.
Why not just wrap it in a tissue and send it on a direct trip to the incinerator or landfill?
January 15, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Most everybody that uses condoms, flushes them down the toilet after use. It us the prefered disposal.
March 16, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Those of us that use condoms know from experience rubbers can be safely flushed down the toilet after use.
April 7, 2009 at 6:36 pm
I prefer not to use condoms. Better we strictly follow monogamy and practice natural family plannings. Be natural and enjoy the life
May 14, 2009 at 2:09 pm
I always flush my used condoms. Never causes any difficulty. seems the best disposal to me.
May 14, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Believe me keshav dai!! I am always gonna follow you!!
The problem is grave in the suburbs.
I would rather flush it than leave it outside my house for the childrens to “clean” their throat!!
Sorry no blowjob kids!!
July 8, 2009 at 2:37 pm
I can’t understamd all the warnings not to dispose of used condoms by flushing down the toilet. I been disposing my rubbers by flushing and never have any problems. Seems the best and neatest disposal to m.
October 19, 2009 at 5:21 am
Leave the used condom open in the road with a slip attatched mentioning the expiry date of 1 day, so that the collected semen in the condom can be used by ladies having no kids….!