to refuse to stop putting nappies in this bin?

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My elder dd goes to dance lessons on a Saturday morning. They also hold baby ballet classes that morning, which begin at age 2 so obviously many of the class are still in nappies. There's a waiting room/cafe attached to the dance studio where parents and siblings wait.

A few weeks ago I changed my toddlers nappy and put it in the bin in the bathroom. The following week there was a sign above the bin saying: 'do not put nappies in this bin, take them home.' When I was leaving the bathroom a member of staff went in and approached me a couple of minutes later saying could I remove the nappy in the bin and take it home. I hadn't changed dd so said the nappy wasn't mine, she looked disbelieving so I asked the reason for the no nappy rule.

She said the bin is small so nappies get squashed and it isn't pleasant for staff to empty. I said surely the answer is to buy a bigger bin as many paying customers of theirs are nappy-wearers. She said the rules stands and walked off. Thee following week there was a more aggressive sign with capitals and underlining and to be honest, I feel like just ignoring it. We usually go out for the day straight from dancing and, particularly in the summer, it's not great to have a dirty nappy in the car. There are no other bins nearby and, like I said, I feel if your service caters for toddlers then you should also cater your facilities to them.

Aibu to ignore whatever sign she's dreamed up this week and use the bin anyway?

Boched you are acting as if she has been leaving soiled nappies on counters and chairs etc or has been smearing the contents of the nappy across menues. to call her a dirty cow for putting a nappy in the bin is wrong.

honestly don't see the issue with bagging a nappy and putting it in the bin, as long as it is bagged. I would prefer to empty a bin of bagged nappies than empty a bin of non bagged sanitary towels or tampons which when left smells just as bad as nappies do.

YABU to continue to use bin even when asked not to but YANBU to use bins placed in bathrooms for nappies.

Meh, I guess I'm 'entitled' too.

Leaving a nappy in a proper nappy bin : fine
Leaving a nappy in an ordinary bin : not fine

Whether the owner should provide a nappy bin is another argument.

Nappy bins stink because people often don't bother to wrap nappies if they are putting them in a bin they can walk away from to let some on else deal with.

This dance school can insit on whatever rules it chooses, including the rule that people should not leave dirty nappies. If you don't like the rule, don't use the facility.

Proper nappy bins are quite big..

Yabu

And this is why I used cloth nappies and a Mooncup!

If you choose to use a totally environmentally destructive method of collecting your's and your child's waste then you need to take responsibility for disposing of it. Oh no, I forgot, that's not your responsibility just as looking after the planet isn't. Hey ho, just leave it for someone else :-(

There are proper methods for disposing of human waste. Leaving it in an ordinary bin, where the bag might burst, and where other people using those loos have to put up with the smell.

Yanbu as it is a business , if it was a church hall for example them ywbu.

I am still making the point I thought I was making because some pubs etc do have beer gardens and outside areas where smoking is still allowed outside and there are still ashtrays that need to be emptied, I have worked in these places recently so I do know! Do can't just refuse to empty them because it's gross and you're a non smoker unless you want to get fired

IMO, nappies are no more hazardous than any other rubbish, people dispose of them at home in normal household waste so what's the difference?

And not putting nappies in outside street bins? Why on earth not! It's no worse than dog poo and that goes in those bins too better that than left lying on the pavement

I doubt the op is expecting the staff to clean up her child's poo with her bare hands, presumably the offending nappy is in a nappy bag in a bin, so therefore you just change the bin bad, not need to come into direct contact with it!

I'm sure sanpro left for 3/4 weeks would be pretty offensive too but no one suggests taking that home!

Do people saying YANBU realise that the OP wants to keep doing it though she has been explicitly asked not to and two signs have been put up?

Not that SINBU to be a bit annoyed but that she should keep breaking the rules of the cafe?

SDGT I'm afraid putting up with other people's offensive odours is part and parcel of using public toilets, unless you want to outlaw pooing in public toilets!

YABU - we always have to take our nappies home at toddler group. And every other toddler group I've been to. It just seems better that way - no festering, poo filled nappies sitting around in a church hall toilet stinking out the place, especially in the summer!

Surely somewhere between the place and your destination there must be at least one public bin? Surely?!

Pooing in a toilet is what the toilets are there for, whereas ordinary bins are not intended for the disposal of poo. Also the poo in the toilet is (or should be) flushed away, whereas the poo in the pooey nappy will just sit in the bin until it's emptied.

Dog poo goes into lidded bins.

Not always it doesn't - if you don't have any dog poo bins near you it goes into an ordinary bin!

I believe in that instance you are supposed to carry it to the nearest proper bin or take home, aren't you?

What if you don't have any 'proper' bins near you? If you took it home and put it in your household rubbish it would be disposed of in exactly the same way as it would have if you had put it in a normal public bin!

Nope - two different waste collection pricesses.

But they still go to the same place don't they? It's not like there's hugely different stuff in household bin vs public bin?

There isn't two different waste disposals at home... Nappies go amongst food scraps an other rubbish which all get tipped into one big truck exactly like public bins would be. Which is the point extremepie is trying to make I think?

Yes exactly :)

Eew
I work in a nursery and we use nappy sacks but our nappy bin still stinks
Yabu
The other customers don't have to put up with your child's smelly nappies and you shoulxnf be expecting the cafe staff to have to dispose of it either
Most councils insist bodily waste and nappies goes in a yellow bag and charge extra for taking it away
Don't ignore the signs that's just so rude and massively entitled of you

Yes, but at home it is you who's putting up,with any smells from your bins (and most people have bins outside where stinky nappies can go), whereas if you put a pooey nappy in a bin in a public place, other people may be offended by the smell, and someone else will have to empty the bin with your child's pooey nappy in it.

Plus the particular bin the OP is talking about is indoors, not an outdoor wheely bin, whereas most bins that people put dog poo bags in are going to be outdoors, in the open air, which should mitigate the niff.

And extremepie - you'd like my mum - she carries an old Strepsils tin with her, which she uses as an ash tray wherever she is (in public places anyway), and empties at home.

I am more concerned about your poor toddler spending two hours every week bored stiff in a cafe while her sister dances. Cant you take her somewhere?

But yabu. Take your shit home.

Hi All
I registered today (after lurking for ages) because the op has me incensed with her inconsiderate behaviour.
I manga a public building as part of my job and one thing that is annoying, unfair on staff and utterly disgusting for other users to put up with is the stench of a dirty nappy.
I have put many a sign up politely requesting dirty nappies are either taken home or put straight into our outside bin....I've even explained that it is because the toilets end up smelling horrible.
Sanitary bins are usually emptied monthly by a specialist company (because of blood) and to have a nappy sitting in a sanitary bin for that long is unbearable .
YabVu not to dispose of them yourself.