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.

Lol.

Get a mooncup

Didn't know people still had bathroom bins.
And yes ... obviously we have mooncups 😅
Recycling just goes straight into the outside recycling bin via the 'top of the stairs' wait for someone to pick it up.
Other rubbish goes in a bin in the hallway.
If you put your used tampon in it, the dog would soon help itself to the tasty treat 🤑

We have separate bins for recycling in our bathrooms #theresposh

The lidded pedal bins are for sanpro, used plasters, empty toothpaste tubes, cotton wool - you know, general bathroom rubbish.

The open wicker ones are for cardboard and plastic bottles, b/c those are are recycled where we live. Occasionally visitors get it wrong but a) most people disposing of a used pad gravitate towards the lidded bin and b) people also always wrap their used pads IME - so if I have ever had to fish one out of the recycling, it has not been the end of the world,as I too am the owner of a human body, so I can cope!

I think I'd put them in the kitchen bin as this is emptied more readily. I'd worry they'd start to small in the bathroom bin, which isn't emptied as often and is far smaller.

@lassof That seems a legitimate reason (dog getting hold of it) tbf.

Didn't know people still had bathroom bins.
And trot out of the room with cotton wool and tissues every time you so much as take your make up off or low your nose? I didn't realise bathroom bins were 'passé'!

All my rubbish has to be put out in tied up bin bags (no wheely bin). So the choice for me (and my guests) would be bathroom bin or kitchen bin. I'd find it far more disgusting to have used sanitary products languishing in my kitchen bin than in the bathroom!

My kitchen bin gets emptied approx twice per week, so if the bathroom bin has been used (it isn't alway needed), then I'll just grab the bag, tie it, and chuck it in the big bag. I would hate for any guests to feel they have to stick their used stuff in their handbag or whatever. That also seems pretty gross to me.

@ValerieDoonican I hope to one day reach this level of poshness :D

I wouldn’t even wrap mine in a scented plastic bag - just a bit of loo roll. Agree with OP - it’s not shameful at all to have a period. If it smells empty the bin?!

This is bonkers.

Yeah I guess we moved on from cotton wool and non-washable face wipes a while ago too.
Insight into other lives via mn, hey!

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.

Those are words. Like the people who say 'I'm speechless' just before a tirade!

Depends how long they're in there for. If they're emptied at least once a day then yeah, it's fine but you don't want a stinking bin. I wouldn't use someone else's bathroom bin unless it was someone who I was comfortable with seeing my used pads. So I'd rather put them in handbag till I got to an outside bin..

Not grossed out but at end of day it's an item soaking in blood. Bathroom bin doesn't get emptied as often as kitchen bin as only has loo roll tubes and empty shampoo bottles in it. So if I guest put a blood soaked pad in it I probably wouldn't notice until it started to smell. And that's gross!

Yeah I guess we moved on from cotton wool and non-washable face wipes a while ago too.
I've definitely moved on from fabric handkerchiefs. I'm just astonished that some people don't have bins in their bathroom.

I think it might be this and other households like it, where the bathroom bin is like a waste paper basket and just stays filled until it’s full. Putting used sanitary products in it makes it more like a kitchen bin which needs to be emptied very frequently.

you’d hope this was obvious on use though

We have a bin in our ensuite and main bathroom but I hadn't put one in the downstairs toilet. My dsis once suggested it (I think because she was embarrassed that she had nowhere to put her sanitary waste)
I would necessarily expect guests to take their bag to the loo (and she obviously hadnt)

I use a menstrual cup so I don't have any wrappers/rubbish but DD uses the bathroom bin For San pro rubbish. In fact that's just about the only thing that does go in the bathroom bin. Empty shampoo bottles and toilet rolls are taken down for recycling.

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.

You put things in the bin just to take them out again later rather than using the bin for rubbish as is the intended purpose of a bin? That is way weirder than anyone putting using sanitary stuff in their own or anyone else's bin.

ha, yeah I just use loo roll. Bit basic in my family. But do you only blow your nose in the bathroom? This is also a thing I didn't know was a thing.
Tbh there's nothing I would need to put in a bathroom bin really, hence why I don't have one. Those annoying bits from the tops of toothpaste?

I have a little packet of nappy bags near my bin. So anyone who wants to wrap up a pad can put it in a bag.

Weirdly sweary thread. Bathroom bin in our house is for bathroom waste and that includes sanitary towels. They don’t smell, I empty the bin once a week when I clean the bathroom. Bottles and paper to recycle are rinsed/carried straight out to beside bathroom door and make the journey to the recycling with the next person passing. I’d be pissed off if someone blocked the drain with their tampons and grossed out if they were carrying used ones around in the bag.

I use reusable products so don't need a bin. I have 2 dds though so bin required and that's what bin liners are for isn't it? Just tie up and go.

My dds dad has no bathroom bin it's one of many reasons his own dd doesn't like going over tthere.dd2 is ok for the moment but she's 11 so any time now..

I'm not making my kids or my guests wander about with stuff in their bags or having to go to the wheely bin at 2am. Not when i can simply tie up a bin bag and easily dispose.

Missing the point, but I thought you were not supposed to recycle loo roll cores. Well, are you or are you not? Pretty sure I have seen it specified as 'stuff not to recycle' in my LA's leaflet...

About sanitary products in bathroom bins, I canot see where else they'd go 🤔.
Provided they are wrapped. Either in the wrapper of the new product if big enough, or in a decentish amount of toilet tissue. (My bin has no bag. It's very small and gets emptied into the main bin bag when full).

That's precisely what there is a bin next to my toilet for......

Now I'm worried that at some point over the last 25 years I've used someone's bathroom bin for the "wrong" sort of rubbish.