Is this a thing now? Nappy poo in loo....

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My eco friendly friend tips her DS's poos from the nappy down the loo. (She's not that eco friendly. They aren't real nappies.). Is there any reasoning behind this? She claims it is better for the environment but has no science to back it up. Would do it if I felt it was in any way environmental....

I'm a bit at three weekly bin collections

So was I......

You simply bend the nappy backwards and the poo, if it is solid enough, peels off. Soft poo - might partially peel off. Really soft poo won't. That was my point about 'if it was possible'. I didn't only mean if there was a toilet available.

I don't think its a thing, its just the logical thing to do, no?

MN is the only place I have heard of people doing this and it does make perfect sense, but I never done it myself. Mainly because I don't think my kids poos would fall out the nappy into the loo without some serious scrapage.

I used reusable nappies with mine, so the poo was dropped into the loo, then the nappy went into the bucket and was washed.

Wahable nappies with my 9month old and her poo is perfectly ploppable into the loo... People don't realise how easy washable nappies are now. I change her in the bathroom so I can just tip her poop into the loo and chuck in the bucket. Easy peasy.

Never did it with ds's. However he had medical problems and I don't recall any poo that wasn't liquid....

I don't think either of my two DS's poo would of come out the nappy without some serious scrapage either. Not sure whether it's BF or lots of fruit or whatever. Elder DS is now 4 and has perfectly normally poos in the toilet though.

if able to do this then why not

It always astonishes me that it is NOT a more common thing, and that you actually need to ask op.

Would you wrap your poos up in non bio degradable padding and plastic and store them all in your bin for a fortnight?

You can buy a flushable paper liner for nappies to make it all much easier.

Yes, I did this from when I started using washable nappies with DC1, but carried on whether using washables or disposables. It just makes sense - the waste goes where it's meant to and the bin smells less rank.

YY i did this always with DSs now 15 and 12. I didn't want a bin full of poo, especially in the summer months.

No kids here, but babysat many a one, over the years, and always did that. Common sense, to me.

I just hadn't thought. His poos have only just gone solid - will do it now! Our bins are emptied every day btw - I don't live with the smell of poo!

Thanks all

Where else do poo go?

As others have said it's a hygiene thing. Normal waste disposal doesnt deal with biological waste, any disease or contamination will be spread by rats or other animals, or get into the water table and eventually our water systems.

Biological waste should be dealt with by the sewerage system. There are processes to decontaminate and sanitise before allowing waste into the environment.

It's not a "green" or "Eco" thing, it's reducing the spread of disease and land contamination.

This is why nurseries have to pay to have nappy waste removed and disposed of properly. They can't just chuck it in the bin. My nursery loved my reusables as even one child cut down their bill considerably (goes on weight I think).

Where on earth do you have a municipal bin collection every day?

Our black bin is emptied once a fortnight - it would pure reek if it were full of shitty nappies.

Ours are 18&20. We always did this, why would you not?

I'm intrigued by that too, daily bin collection! Our bins are once a fortnight.

Technically (and I researched this when I first started doing nappies) you are SUPPOSED to do this - it is technically illegal to dispose of poo in a bin, and you are obliged to sluice poo off the nappy, whether you use a disposable or not. Its something about poo and waterways and landfill or something. I might try and find a link. Obviously it is generally accepted that many will not do this and it doesn't seem to be enforced.

If it was enforced, it would be a good argument for reusable nappies - which generally use flushable liners - if you "had" to sluice, it would be much easier to pull it off and flush it from a reusable than faff about with a disposable which would then become the worst of both worlds.

As for me, it would very much depend on whether or not the poo was solid as to whether I would bother but I did sometimes shake off the worst. The less in your bin bags the better, particularly in summer!

NEVER GOING BACK NEVER GOING BACK NEVER GOING BACK

This is surely common sense.

How can people think landfill is a better option than the sewage system?

Frau, Jill, surely she means the bin inside the house is emptied every day.

Maybe so, rooty but the outside bin would still stink to high heaven, and technically, as Tatty says, you aren't supposed to put human poo in the bin!

I'm in Spain. There are multiple bins dotted about all over the place. We have 3 grey ones for household waste, yellow for plastic, brown for organic, blue for cardboard and green for glass, that are emptied every night. On Saturdays 8am-10pm there is a big container (like from a container ship) with smaller wheelie bins for cooking oil, broken toys, old batteries and lightbulbs, broken electrics etc. It's brilliant. No smell in the house, everything goes out at the end of the day.

But definitely poo in the loo.

My kids are older than most of you, so no disposables in those days. I used to hold the terry nappy while flushing, I only let go once! If there are such things as flushable liners it makes sense to use them. The thought of all that poo wrapped up in non biodegradable plastic in landfill makes me feel sick.