Alternative to Bleach?

Although I don't have a septic tank, I do use Lilly's Eco Clean products, including their toilet cleaner, and am very happy with them. The toilet cleaner can be used with septic tanks according to [broken link removed]. Better for you, better for the environment, and Irish made.
 
Actually, quite a few of the toilet cleaning products on the supermarket shelves say "safe for use with septic tanks". Tesco Active Toilet Gel is one but there are others - you just check the small print on the label.
 
Sherman said:
Although I don't have a septic tank, I do use Lilly's Eco Clean products, including their toilet cleaner, and am very happy with them. The toilet cleaner can be used with septic tanks according to [broken link removed]. Better for you, better for the environment, and Irish made.
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Have tried this and although its not bad, it just doesn't do as good a job as bleach.

Tks mct1, will take a closer look.
 
Yea, thats what I used to do, but when u read articles like these, I was wondering if there was any other way of doing it: [broken link removed]

''An interesting side effect of the use of bleach in toilets is the effective disabling of septic tank systems. This is because, like it says on the pack, chlorine is a pretty effective way of killing all known bugs. It can’t distinguish between good bugs and bad bugs though. Thus, killing the bugs that are needed to break down your toilet waste effectively knocks your septic tank out of action. Down there at the end of your garden it could perhaps be a highly efficient means of digesting down your toilet waste if the bugs that undertake this task were left alone long enough to deal with the ‘business’ to hand (using the word business advisedly). The punctuated flushing of large volumes of chlorine-based bleach/disinfectant down the loo, however, puts paid to that possibility. As a result your septic tank stinks to high heaven and annoys the neighbours and probably pollutes the groundwater even worse than it would if left to its own devices''.
 
does your washing machine outfall to the septic tank???

if it does id suggest disconnecting it and diverting it to a new network which has a concrete settlement tank then a grease trap then outfall to a soakaway... the settlement tank allows material heavier than water to settle and needs to be cleaned regularly,.. the grease trap allows for removal of suspended solids lighter than water and again needs to be cleaned regularly...

the septic tank should be well able to recieve the intermittant use of toilet bleach as you would be surprised with the large numbers of bacterial colonies in them.....

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ecover toilet cleaner is safe for septic tanks, works really well (I haven't had to use bleach since I bought it) and smells nicer and less chemically than traditional cleaners (or bleach for that matter).
 
circle said:
ecover toilet cleaner is safe for septic tanks, works really well (I haven't had to use bleach since I bought it) and smells nicer and less chemically than traditional cleaners (or bleach for that matter).
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Used to buy ecover years ago but havent seen it in years ,do any of the major supermarkets still sell it?
 
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