Around 10 400 000 snusprillor flushed down in the toilets in Skellefteå each year, according to the municipality, which now hope to be able to get to a change in the behavior.
According to the trade association the Swedish water, snus is Sweden’s most common fulspolning. Every day flushes the swedes down around four million pouches in the toilets, which creates strain on the treatment plants.
"the treatment plant is not built to take care of hazardous substances, such as cadmium from snus and snuff. Cadmium is therefore a risk that eventually end up being in the great outdoors," said Anna Linusson, ceo of the Swedish Water, in a press release.
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Snus should always be disposed as förbränningsbara garbage, because it contains the environmentally harmful metal cadmium, which is not material does not decompose in nature.
Skellefteå snus users fulspolar down 29 000 pouches in the toilets each day, which equates to approximately 10.5 million pouches, or 8.3 tonnes per year, according to Skellefteå municipality.
“We hope of course that we tell you about this great variety of snuff that is flushed down the get many to change their behavior and throw the snuff among förbränningsbara garbage instead, but also that both snus and non-snus users think a turn extra before the flush down things that don’t belong in the toilet,” says Helena Jonsson, head of operations, the production wastewater and biogas, Skellefteå municipality, in a press release.
