An installer wrote asking whether polymers present in soaps and body washes could cause clogging in effluent filters and on media filter surface areas. He had observed this problem in systems that his company installs and maintains. This is an interesting question and a little different take on a problem that has been observed elsewhere. It was ascribed to excessive use of antibacterial cleaning products interrupting septic tank biology, causing excessive solids to accumulate, clogging effluent filters and having the potential to move solids downstream.We are not organic chemists, and our only association with polymers is in a rudimentary
