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

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Givemecoffeeplease · 03/12/2014 08:29

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....

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purplemurple1 · 03/12/2014 09:57

I've never heard of this either OP, and I don't intend to start doing it. Our bin is outside about 200m from the house and the rubbish is burnt for village heating (I'm in Sweden), so I can't see any reason to handle poo when I don't need to.

My aunt uses an outside toilet that use to be shared with animals and hasn't been emptied in about 20yrs. If I was going to get worried about poo in landfill I guess I would start there!

Leo35 · 03/12/2014 09:58

Poo goes in the loo. It's much better for your environment as a lot of the smelly stuff goes into the sewerage system. But on a wider scale more knowledgeable posters than me have come up with better facts about landfill and contamination (shudder).

calmexterior · 03/12/2014 09:58

Yes definitely flush away if not too liquid possible

Poledra · 03/12/2014 10:02

I always flushed the poo (once it became solid enough).

I share with you here the genius of my father - my oldest DD pooped in her pants once when dad was here. Dad removed the pants, turned them inside out over the loo then flushed the loo while holding the pants under the flush to remove as much residue as possible. Genius, I tells ya.

Or, as he said when I expressed my admiration, the things you do when there are no such things as disposable nappies, and you cannot afford to throw away underwear for the sake of a little bit of poo.

CrunchySlippers · 03/12/2014 10:03

my boys are 9&12 and all solid(ish) waste was flushed, you dont 'handle it' you just hang it over the loo and then flush. I dont even know why you would want to bin it - toilets are made to take the waste

Poledra · 03/12/2014 10:04

Ach, that's the second time in as many days I've taken too long to type something and my thunder has been stolen.

MisguidedAngel, are you my mum?

GotToBeInItToWinIt · 03/12/2014 10:04

Our bin was collected every day between 8pm and midnight when we lived in Madrid. It was amazing.

JohnFarleysRuskin · 03/12/2014 10:05

You do get into a habit of just bagging up the squidgy poo in the nappy and putting it in the bin I think so that it sometimes just doesn't occur to you that the poo has changed and alternative methods are appropriate...

FrauHelgaMissMarpleandaChuckle · 03/12/2014 10:06

Do people really throw away pants for a bit of poo? Shock

TheYuletideMovement · 03/12/2014 10:09

I did this too.

JadedAngel · 03/12/2014 10:10

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Poledra · 03/12/2014 10:13

Frau, I never have (chucked away pants for a bit of poo) but I've seen threads on here where people say they do Confused

FrauHelgaMissMarpleandaChuckle · 03/12/2014 10:16

Poledra - Shock

quietlysuggests · 03/12/2014 10:17

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Neverbuyheliumbalonz · 03/12/2014 10:19

You do get into a habit of just bagging up the squidgy poo in the nappy and putting it in the bin I think so that it sometimes just doesn't occur to you that the poo has changed and alternative methods are appropriate...

Yes, this I think. Also, no one ever told me I was supposed to put the poo down the loo, but as I said before it does make sense. It should be more enforced to get rid of poo down the toilet - if local councils put in their bin collection literature that human waste should be disposed of down he toilet and not left in nappies, then people would think a bit more.

I'm also going to be totally honest and say that when DS had poo accidents in his pants when potty training, I just bagged up the whole thing and put it in the bin Blush But it did only happen about 3 or 4 times in total and again, everyone else I spoke to said they did the same!

Dumbledoresgirl · 03/12/2014 10:54

life is too short to try to get poo out of pants so yes, straight into bin.

Nah, it isn't that short! I have lived for nearly 5 decades and in all those years, have washed pooey pants for maybe 1 hour in total. (And I had 4 kids all of whom pooed their pants at some point).

FrauHelgaMissMarpleandaChuckle · 03/12/2014 10:55

Surely you just

Dangle pants over loo

Flush

Stick now wet pants in laundry basket

Wash with next load of washing

slithytove · 03/12/2014 11:00

Ds doesn't do solids yet at nearly 2. Should I be worried

slithytove · 03/12/2014 11:02

By which I mean they are squidgy and would need scraped into the loo

CurlyBlueberry · 03/12/2014 11:13

My 22 month old loves it! He will often tell me he's pooed but not be happy about being changed Hmm so I told him that poo needs to go into the loo and be flushed away to Pooland, and I put the poo in the toilet and he flushes it. We usually use reusables, but due to his excited "Pooland! Pooland!" we do it when we are using disposables too.

MaidOfStars · 03/12/2014 11:19

I'm not a parent and can't remember ever discussing this topic ever, a blank slate if you wish. And it's glaringly obvious to me that you would, when possible, dispose of nappy contents down the loo.

TheFairyCaravan · 03/12/2014 11:24

Why do you need to be told that poo doesn't go in a bin? Confused

Do you shit in a bin? No? Well there's your answer!

QuietsBatmobileLostAWheel · 03/12/2014 11:37

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however · 03/12/2014 11:40

I always flushed mine if possible. I thought everyone did. Then I read MN.

Poolomoomon · 03/12/2014 11:51

Well poo doesn't become emptyable until they start weaning does it? When it's basically yellow water for the first six months I can't logically see a way of getting that down the loo... But once they become solid it's just a simple tip (most of the time) and the lump is gone. Tbh I'd never even thought of flushing poos when I used disposables, I only used them until DC1 was 11 months then I switched to reusables and never looked back. Now I'm emptying poos on a regular basis and have been for nearly four years, bit of a poo emptying expert I guess Wink. If it isn't a tip and it falls into the toilet poo you scrape with toilet roll, it ain't always pretty mind and I have had it on my fingers before now- gross, I know.

Oh and get more jealous, our wheely bins are collected WEEKLY Shock.