Scottish Water’s sewer response teams adopting new signage to urge customers to 'bin the wipes'

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Scottish Water’s sewer response teams are adopting a bold new tactic to urge Lanarkshire customers to “bin the wipes” that cause issues.To highlight the scale and nature of the problem created by people wrongly flushing wipes down toilets, the company’s fleet of teams will be equipped with new signage about their work, which they will display before leaving a street stencil on the pavement saying: "Another blockage cleared.

Flushing wipes blocks pipes. Bin the wipes.”Scottish Water clears about 100 blockages per day and wipes are found in 80 per cent of them.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

Get all the news from your area – as well as features, entertainment, sport and the latest on Lanarkshire’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic – straight to your fingertips, 24/7.The free download features the latest breaking news and exclusive stories, and allows you to customise your page to the sections that matter most to you.Head to the App Store and never miss a beat in Lanarkshire - iOS - Android It costs about £216 to clear an individual blockage and about £23,000 per day to attend to them across Scotland.The utility is calling on Lanarkshire residents to dispose of wipes in the bin, along with other bathroom items such as period products and cotton buds and to flush only the 3Ps down toilets - pee, poo and (toilet) paper.The new signage and street stencils, which are part of Scottish Water’s ongoing Nature Calls campaign designed to encourage people to help prevent blockages which can cause flooding of properties and pollution, will be used across the country at every blockage the company attends.The company also gives away free products to aid behaviour change including reusable wipes, small