Stinking wheelie bin - what is a childminder to do?

I work in a lagre day nursery and we wear gloves, aprons and use nappy sacks for soiled nappies. The nappies go in the nappy bin and this bin is emptied twice a day into the huge wheelie bin. The wheelie bin is emptied every week by a private contractor.
I have worked in nurseries where nappies are treated as clinical waste and put into yellow clinical waste bags and collected by a specialist contractor.
As you are running a business from your home you may have to consider using a private contractor to dispose of your nappies and then pas this cost on to your parents. I am sure they would prefer this to having to take home stinky nappies. I know I would.
Why not get a quote?

My Childminder used to (when my DD was in napppies) bag them and give them to us to take home. I can't say I like it but Iudnerstood why and never complained. I did used to drive by the shops and put them all in the bin in the carpark quite often though!

Hi there!

I am a childminder who tonight had the gloves on disinfecting the bin lol! I wash it out every 2 weeks (collection every 2 weeks) in the evening once I finish work. even though it doesn't smell, more out of habit!

I double wrap and use gloves (good practise in my view). OP did not ask to be bashed about re-useables!

I have 9-11 children a day of which 3-8 are in nappies & I manage fine with fortnightly collection

Everything goes in the bin bagged, it stands in shade half the day and I flush as much poo as possible

Fortnightly collections are starting in my area in September and I'm dreading it.
I'm thinking about putting all the nappies in a carrier bag and taking them to a street bin at the end of the day, I cannot bear the thought of a smelly nappy being in my bin for a fortnight.
And I do flush the poo down the loo but sometimes it just sticks to the nappy and there's no way of getting it off.

I am lucky that I have a toilet next to my nappy changing table, so I flush 'easy' poos. I use gloves and bags and hate the thought of the landfill.

I think some nurseries have a nappy macerator (sp?), but that just adds to the algael (sp?) bloom in the rivers, so I don't know what the answer is.

Invest in a jet washer and clean out your bin regularly.

Booh As a childminder you don't have to use gloves. I don't, I was inspected last week and wasn't questioned as to why I didn't wear any. I use antibac gel in between children and then wash hands at the end. It might be considered good practice, but they are not compulsory and you can protect yourself and children from cross-infection without them.

I think by law we should put nappies in the yellow medical bags that are taken away and burnt (like hospitals use) and I think a lot of large commercial nurseries do this too.

BBBH - we HAVE to use gloves, and we HAVE to double wrap in nappy bags.

For my own children, and two minded children I used reusable nappies and sent dirty nappies and wipes home, but not every parent wants to do this.

You can use one of those nappy wrap bins, but i have found them expensive for the replacement bags and they are a bugger to clean!

No, not all baby poos are solid and yes, sometimes the wipes get very dirty. But there really is no reason at all to have a whole heap of solid little poos in your wheelie bin every week. Even if the babies you are looking after are so young that they are not weaned and have very soft poos, most of it will not be stinking out your wheelie bin if you line with a disposable liner and flush that down the loo.

Double wrapping nappies full of shit and using a pair of disposable gloves for each change and throwing those away too, all to end up in landfill - that is a really deeply antisocially enviornmentally unfriendly thing to do.

You look after 6 to 7 children by yourself? I though CM could only have a max of 2 under 2 and 3 under 5, and no more than 3 or 4 in total, or am I completely wrong?

I would suggest getting a proper nappy bin, wrap the nappy in the glove, then put in a nappy bag and into the bin. As long as you empty it everyday it should be fine, as everything will then be sealed in properly IYSWIM.

Flush the poo down the loo!

What exactly is the problem with this?

I feel like I'm going mad that this doesn't seem to occur to people .

Id be annoyed if my cm made me take my son's dirty nappies home.

If you explained the problem to parents and asked them to take their child's nappies home to put in their own bin, do you think they would be ok about it? I would, but then my DS is in cloth.

Get a wheelie bin cleaning service. They come once a month after the bin is emptied and it makes a massive difference.

bodily waste isn't counted as household rubbish so where-ever possible you should flush in wc. The council could decline to take your rubbish if you have large quantities ... they can insist you have a clinical and/or trade waste collection if they have issues with the quantity or nature of your waste.

Double or triple wrap the nappies, using gloves and nappy sacks (I ask parents to supply nappy sacks but I supply gloves). Wash & disinfect your bin every time its emptied and add extra disinfectant between collections. Frequent squirts of fly spray is a good idea too.

I agree with bibbity - i used to regularly flush my daughters poos down the loo ((i used reusables and they would be in a nappy bin as i would only wash every 2-3 days and hardly any smell)... i know not all poos are flushable but it will help.
Could you encourage the parents to use resuables, (there are grants available to get started for most parents) that way they can take them home at the end of the day and you would not be throwing them in your bin.
Or do a contract with a nappy service where they drop off nappies and pick them up to wash and drop off again ... (i am sure this would cost the same for parents as disposables cost)
that way you could increase your credentials by coming an environmentally friendly childminder!

You can get wheelie bin disenfecting granules -jeyes do them. I have got them from Tesco in the past but b and q def do them.

A squirt of fly spray and then close the lid a couple times a week will help stop maggots.

Did you see my suggestion?

Perhaps you should consider whether the amount of waste generated is more suited to a trade waste contract?