Public information campaign poster in Taipei MRT informs passengers that toilet paper can indeed be flushed down the toilet.
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/05/30
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A poster in the Zhongshan Elementary MRT station informs
Sign explaining that toilet paper can be flushed down the toilet. (By Taiwan News)
passengers of the fact that toilet paper can be flushed down the toilet, as part of Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) public information campaign ahead of next month’s “toilet paper flushing policy.”
The sign reads:
“The answer to a big mystery!! Toilet paper can be flushed down the toilet, did you know that?”
About 45 percent of Taipei citizens are still not used to flushing toilet paper down the toilet despite previous public information campaigns by the EPA, according to Taipei City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). Many still toss their used toilet paper into trash bins instead of the commode out of fear that it will clog the toilet and/or the septic system. However, EPA head Lee Ying-yuan (李應元) said that experiment results show that toilet paper degrades in water. [FULL STORY]
