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“There are a number of competing guidelines about when a product can be considered to be disposable in municipal sewer systems,” the letter reads.The Friends complaint was partly based on a study done at Toronto Metropolitan University, which tested 23 different wipes products marketed as flushable and biodegradable and concluded none of them lived up to the claim.Article content
The complainants say the only other “standard” that exists was created by the makers of the wipes themselves, and those haven’t been accepted by any municipalities in Canada or any wastewater professionals anywhere in North America.Advertisement 4Julie Baribeau, a spokeswoman for the Competition Bureau, told The Canadian Press in an email while the investigation has ended, the bureau “does not endorse the representations made about ‘flushability’ or the tests used to evaluate this feature.
The city of Calgary reported getting 7,200 calls to remove blockages from sewers in 2021 and single-use wipes were the biggest culprit.Nine days before the Competition Bureau in Canada closed its investigation citing a lack of evidence, a U.S. judge approved a settlement in a case against Kimberly-Clark Corp., brought by the city of Charleston, S.C.
Olivastri said Innovation Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne can review the Competition Bureau’s decision to suspend its investigation in Canada.
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