Can someone tell me WHY they are so grossed out by sanitary products in a BIN?

[KateTush]

I know this thread may invite the haves and the have nots of bathroom bins to argue endlessly about it, but what I really want to know is…

…(to the people who DON’T think it’s acceptable to put a tampon/sanitary towel into a bathroom bin): WHY ON EARTH NOT?!?

It’s a bloody bin (pun not intended). In a bathroom. For bathroom rubbish. Which for many women is primarily used sanitary products. I’ve often seen threads where people say it’s disgusting to have to “handle” or “root around for” a friend’s tampon…er…you don’t do either?! You tie a knot in the bin bag, without looking at the contents cos you’re not deeply weird, and chuck it in the outside bin.

Using kitchen bin is one thing, but expecting a guest to put bathroom waste in their handbag next to their phone/snacks/pen/chewing gum/whatever is just so unreasonable it boggles my mind. Even more so if you have a bathroom bin but think that this particular use of it is unreasonable.

I’m wondering who I’ve offended in my life by using their bathroom bin in this way - it would never occur to me that there was an unsaid rule about sanitary products not going in there when it seems to be the main purpose of the bin being there in the first place.

I’m sorry, but I’ve also got to ask all the handbag smugglers/hosts who expect guests to handbag smuggle - are you generally a bit uptight about hygiene and bodily functions or perhaps periods in general? And again, how is it more gross to BIN something that PUT IT IN YOUR HANDBAG.

A bin is a bin. It’s for rubbish. That includes used sanitary products (obviously unless a recycling bin). A handbag is for putting everyday and useful items of an inoffensive nature in.

I agree. I've seen threads like that. I would be more offended by a guest in my home feeling they had to walk around putting them in their bags than just using my bathroom bin. Many of us have periods ffs.

You put used sanitary products in someone else’s little bathroom bin?

I have no words. I wouldn’t even put them in my own bathroom bin, it’s for the insides of toilet rolls or empty shampoo bottles until they are recycled etc.

YANBU I would assume that was what the bin was for.

I agree, it's a bathroom bin, it's for any rubbish from the bathroom.

It's a bin! Not your kitchen table

@lickenchugget I’m so interested to know what your reaction would be to, say, a used tampon in a little plastic sanitary bag inside your bathroom bin?

Weird

It's a bin. For rubbish

You put used sanitary products in someone else’s little bathroom bin?

I have no words. I wouldn’t even put them in my own bathroom bin, it’s for the insides of toilet rolls or empty shampoo bottles until they are recycled etc.*

So where do you put it when you’re at home?

Straight in the outside bin, same as nappies

I don't get it either!! I used to live with someone who would gently take me to one side and say "Oops, you accidently put your sanitary towel in the bathroom bin, maybe you can move it dont want to embarrass you!"

It was wrapped tight either way and who gives a shit?! Her face when I said it wasn't an accident and to stop making such a fuss about it was amazing.

i empty the bin more when I’m putting sanitary products in there, so if I didn’t know there were some in there I may leave it a few days, by which point it may be smelly surely?!?!

i think it depends, if you wrap it in one of those scented bags, with nothing visible that’s different to just dropping it in, or even dropping it in with a bit of loo roll that can soak through. Also if their bin is open or not.
i wouldn’t put mine in someone else’s bin anyway. I wouldn’t be offended or anything if my friends or family did but probably surprised.

I find this weird. Why can't you put those things in the recycling straight away, instead of the bin?

Op, I'm with you. House full of females here, the bathroom bins are often full of sanitary products. I don't make my dds feel it's something to be ashamed of, I simply empty the bin regularly.

If it's wrapped I don't see a problem.

Clearly someone who doesn't live in a flat on a high floor.

Toilet roll tubes and empty shampoo bottles are in bathroom for mere minutes as when you leave the bathroom in this house you take the empty stuff and put it in the recycling bin in the utility.

I would be fine with someone putting their rubbish in my actual bin. I don't provide a sanitary bin that gets incinerated, just a normal lidded bin for bathroom rubbish, used ear buds, foil tops off toothpaste and sanitary products. I am the only female in this house, no one has ever needed smelling salts when they have used the bathroom bin.

It’s a bin. It’s for rubbish.
Items for recycling are taken downstairs & put in the recycling bag as soon as they are finished/emptied/whatever.
The people who don’t put sanitary waste in the bin, where do you suggest it should go? What if your friend is staying away from home? Should they keep it in their handbag until the next day? Do you provide little bags & order them to put it in the big bin outside? But then I suppose some people also object to the fact that it’s not double bagged or inside another, larger waste bag. The mind boggles.

I think it’s that lots of people don’t empty the bathroom bin that often and it’s usually “dry” stuff that goes in there - empty shower gel bottles, loo rolls etc. Mine is certainly more recycling than actual rubbish.

So it seems a bit gross to have to empty the bin especially for someone else’s used insides but of course that’s what the bin is for innit.

Surprised anyone on here uses disposable san pro anyway, I thought MNers were pretty much sponsored by mooncups

@lickenchugget You'd freak out that I hand-wash my period pants, leave them to soak for a couple of days til I have a wash load, and then wash them.

I think if it's wrapped in a bag I put it in
My bathroom bin, but in someone else's house I tend to put it in the outside bin. It wouldn't bother me if people used my bathroom bins though - they're emptied every day and have liners.

Oh do wise up ffs. So you'd expect a guest to exit the bathroom and go to your outside bin with a used sanitary product? Can't imagine you've too many guests!

In my case I have a toddler in an upstairs flat. I can only literally empty my bins once they are in bed because they can open the front door so can't be left alone. Nappies usually stink. It's a bit of blood, well wrapped up ffs

@P00rKids is this aimed at me?

I promise not a troll. Just a woman with a history of fibroids who has encountered discussions of this nature on Mumsnet that have asked more questions than they answered.

I would also suggest, regardless of your suspicion, that there are better ways to get as troll dealt with.

Who are you accusing of being a troll, it's unclear

I don't understand how you would put it in a shampoo bottle - if one just happened to be empty you'd need to take out and rinse it for the recycle bin so you'd have to take it straight back out again!