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From baby wipes and latex gloves to rags, cut up t-shirts and kitchen gloves, the City of Regina says residents are making the wrong choices when it comes to what they are flushing down the toilet.

“I think people are making a choice to put things in the toilet because of how they were used. And that’s not how they need to be thinking,” said Pat Wilson, the city’s director director of water, waste and environmental services. “The only things that should go in the toilet are things that will break down in water and that is toilet paper and human waste.”

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By flushing anything other than that, she said residents might see blockages in their own homes, but that it’s also creating blockages out in the street.

While the city sees a regular number of blockages, Wilson said there has been a slight increase since the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts arrived in Regina. On Monday, a worker tended to an emergency blockage of a sewer main that he couldn’t get through using his usual tools.