What toilets think of gDiapers.
A third-party, independent laboratory tested the ability of a flushable inner pad of a gDiaper to pass through typical North American household toilet fixtures with the addition of a 60-foot length of four-inch diameter glass pipe attached to the toilet discharge. Observations were made of the travel and condition of the inner pad in the drainage pipe. Test guidelines were based on the Water Environment Research Foundation
(WERF) "Protocols to Assess the Breakdown of Flushable Consumer
Products" method A.1 "Screening Toilet Bowl and Drainline Test," the
current industry standards for assessing flushable products.
Six toilets, representative of toilets currently in domestic use, were used in the evaluation (see table below). All toilets are considered low consumption models (approximately 1.6 gallons or less). Based on all six toilet fixtures, the gDiaper flushable pad met the WERF acceptance criteria for bowl and trap clearance.
| Manufacturer |
Model |
Description |
Flush volume |
| Sterling |
Windham |
Gravity-flush washdown |
1.5 gal |
| Briggs |
Vacuity |
Vacuum-assisted |
1.4 gal |
| Mansfield* |
Quantum |
Pressure-assisted siphon jet action |
1.3 gal |
| Kohler |
Wellwort |
Gravity-fed siphon jet action |
1.5 gal |
| American Standard |
Hydra |
Gravity-fed siphon jet |
1.8 gal |
| Chile |
Generic |
Gravity-fed siphon jet |
1.8 gal |