...to think you should be able to leave a dirty nappy in a bin in a baby changing room?

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Just wondering if anyone else is coming across this more often? I've been to two recently where there's a sign asking if dirty nappies can be taken away/home/elsewhere etc as it is causing a smell. I can see where they're coming from in one way but the last one was in a walk in centre?! I'm not sure all the ill people would have been happy if I'd put the dirty nappy in my changing bag and sat for an hour in the waiting room stinking the place out?!

I double bagged (in a wet bag) reusable nappies, after flushing waste from liner.

You should be able to take them with you if facilities for disposing properly not available. And yes, (whoever said) waste ought to be flushed in any case, really.

I am sure somewhere in my taxes I am paying for it anyway Lemon.

And I am not squeamish about my DDs poo, I just dont fancy having to shake poo from a disposable nappy when I am out.

I am sure somewhere in my taxes I am paying for it There are a lot of things our taxes pay for. Clearing clinical waste from a baby-changing room of a pre-school, church etc isn't included.

Probably not, the tax comment was only tongue in cheek

Being honest, after visiting some toilets and seeing just how dirty some people are, I much prefer the thought of a nappy being wrapped tightly and bagged then some half arsed attempt of removing poo and getting said poo in the actual toilet and flushed properly.

Surely that's a reason to be more clean, and not to add to the stench? Flicking a poo isn't that hard. Most are happy to clear off. There are always one or two that will defeat you, but they're in the minority. Hell; even this cloth lover binned the odd pair of pants/ fleece liner that had gone beyond the pale.

There's too much of an "out of sight, out of mind" attitude to waste and its disposal, and "my taxes pay for this" is kind of missing the point, as if everyone flicked their child's poo the problem would be much less severe.

Lemon, I did say I was only joking about the taxes thing.

Nope, dont like the idea of scraping poo from a nappy when I am out, its not an out of sight thing, just a preference. You are a cloth lover, good for you, but accept its not for everyone.

I don't expect everyone to love cloth - just to dispose of a nappy's contents responsibly. It's your preference not to? Lucky old you. What about the preference of everyone else not to have to put up with the stench?

If its a baby change room then responsibly it should have the correct changing facilities for nappy's to be disposed of. As mentioned, not all changing rooms have toilets.

If you can always find one that does then lucky old you.

ROFL at the idea of 'flicking' most of DS's poos off his nappies..

I tried cloth, but he'd go through a dozen dirty nappies just during the day so I couldn't keep up with the washing - and back then his poo was definitely unflickable - liners only did so much..

They do smell, but a lidded bin, and regular emptying would fix that - shouldn't they be checking/cleaning the toilets every couple of hours anyhow (they do in most places I go)? Baby change facilities should include disposal - it's not clinical waste, it goes in a normal bin (at least as far as my council website is concerned).

After all, dog walkers get doggy poo bins, and that's bare poo - not even packaged up in a neat, moisture-absorbing wrapper.

toddler diarrhoea can not always be flushed. it would be worse to try and do so.

some nappy change areas do not have toilets.

Look, what do you all think happened before disposables? Yes - it was disposed of in the toilet, and washing machines were not as resilient as those of today, so they couldn't just be slung in on a hot wash. It's really not an unreasonable expectation. Not fun - but part and parcel of having a child.

If you really don't want to do it, how about a system whereby you could pay to leave your nappy or save the money and deal with it yourself. Nappies cost a fortune, but don't seem to cover the true cost of their own life cycle in the shelf ticket price that you pay.

On a domestic level, nappies do go in ordinary bins, but en masse are handled as clinical waste.

As I said up thread - yes, it can't always be flushed. But most toddlers don't have permanent diarrhoea. And if they do, then nappy disposal is the least of your worries.

Lemonsole, my 2 yr old never ever does solid poos, the gp says that is just how she is (I was concerned she must be intolerant to something she was eating). There is no way her poos are flushable, they're just a big sticky, liquidy mess. Not sure what you're expecting me to do .

And probably more information than I wanted to share, but I'm the same and according to my dm always have been. I had various tests done in my 20s but finally just put down to IBS (in other words they don't know why).

And in answer to the OP, yes they should have somewhere to dispose of nappies in a baby changing room.

YANBU. It's part of the responsibility of providing nice loos and changing facilities that you make them as problem-free as possible.

YABU
I completely agree with lemon

The state (Local Authority) pays for all the dog turds to be taken away from the dog poo bins, so you would expect babies to get equality. Looking back to dim and distant history I'm not sure either of my sons ever did a poo that could have been fished out of a nappy and flushed, generally either soft or squisehd too much.

I think that's foul.

I would much rather nappies were in the bin than being carried around everywhere. And it makes me wonder how many weeks months they let the tampax fester there. Yuck.

Just imagine a dirty nappy left in a bin, in a toilet (where there is a big sign saying "Please take dirty nappies home with you") in a church hall, which has been shut up for the weekend! Yep, that's what we used to come into on a Monday morning. As soon as we opened the main door the smell used to hit us - the sign in the toilet got larger and larger, but to no avail.

I dont blame them really. Its totally gross to have shit wrapped in plastic accumulating in bin. I really hope in the future it this practise will become unacceptable

But do you also have a sign up in the church hall asking people to take tampax home?

If you do, fair enough, you don't have toilet facilities for everyone.

But surely there is a point when you accept if you provide bins, you empty then?

second thread of the day about this! loos were designed to take poo. landfill not so much. flick or scrape the poo please - even if you are using disposibles. we carry nappies with poo in them if changing rooms don't have loos, only very occasionally do they smell but only within. the nappy bag - the smell doesn't fill the room.

I just don't get why people are so weird about a normal bodily function!

It costs a lot of money to dispose of nappy and sanitary waste. I used to work in a children's centre - we offered sanitary disposal in female toilets, but no nappy disposal. The number of children coming through they would need emptying so often all of the ever decreasing budget would be spent on nappy disposal. Far easier all round for each parent to take one nappy home with them.

Sadly far too many would just walk out the centre and dump it in the road :-(

YANBU.

If they've got a baby change facility, they should have somewhere to put the dirty nappies.

And surely even if you do flick poo off the dirty nappy, there'd still be enough poo stuck on the nappy to make a smell in the bin?

I'd also expect the bins in most nappy change / toilet areas to be checked / emptied several times a day, and at least before the place closes.