Dr Matthew Tipper, business director at the Nonwovens Innovation and Research Institute (NIRI), and David Jackson, consultant and former senior technical leader at Kimberly Clark, discuss all things wipes.

Wipes haven’t had the best press recently. There have been reports about them contributing towards large ‘fatbergs’, research indicating that flushable wipes are indeed not flushable at all, and then there is the issue of them adding to plastic waste.

With so much going on in this sector of nonwovens, we thought it would be best to call in some experts and clarify some of these statements.