to think it would be common courtesy and common sense to that? possibly tmi.

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To put a bin next to the toilet.

This makes me irrationally angry: My job involves going to people's houses. Normally I will be with them between a and 4 hours, so occasionally I will have to use their toilet.
Today I'm on my period and have quite heavy flow. I was on a longer job (3hrs) and bled through my tampon. I discovered that there was no von in the bathroom. Just to be clear. I try to avoid having to change my tampon in client's houses by changing in public loos, McDonald's or Starbucks and carry scented plastic bags with me tobwrap the offender in when I have to do it at someone's house.
So, anyway, i was in the very awkward position of having a soaked tampon and no way of getting rid of it. I was in charge of a very young child - so no way of nipping out to the bins or a pub (to use the loo) and ended up stemming the flow with toilet paper and going back to working with their dc for another hour.
I will not flush a tampon down the loo because I don't want to block the clients toilet.

So, aibu to ask you all to provide a bin for female visitors?

Yes but straight to landfill doesn't mean water companies wasting hundreds of thousands of fishing people's rubbish out of the water systems.

I agree with limon too. I'd do that even if there was a bin.

I'm a bit confused at this- not least, confused at your strength of feeling at what total strangers keep in their house which is, obviously, none of your business- but do you mean you kept in a leaking tampon and stuffed tissue in your pants rather than-
A) removing it, wrapping it in loo roll and taking it to the kitchen bin or
B) flushing it- AS A ONE OFF

Terribly bad for the environment all these double wrapped tampons.

If You had a sealable scented bag with you, why not just keep it in your handbag or pop in the kitchen bin?

I've just looked up 'Fab little bags' on amazon - £1.90 EACH....... Thats more expensive that the tampon!

Landfill may not be ideal but it's better than clogging up the pipes, causing backups and needing to be dug out by some poor plumber. Which has happened at my work several times because people won't bloody stop flushing them.

I would be beside myself with rage if a visitor left a used tampon in my bin!

Surely you carry round with you the means to store it until you are home or in a public loo.

You are being totally unreasonable, and absolutely disgusting.

Your tampon, you dispose of it.

Tampons do break down eventually, bit not in seconds like toilet paper. They swell up and cling to tree roots etc in the pipes, then all the wipes that people like to flush stick to that and create a blockage.

Why can't you just wrap it in toilet paper and put it in your handbag or pocket? I don't really get the fuss.

I agree that bathrooms should have bins.

Please, everyone, stop flushing tampons. And stop flushing wipes. In fact, minimize use of wipes if possible. Just read this horror story from the NYT:
www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/nyregion/the-wet-wipes-box-says-flush-but-the-new-york-city-sewer-system-says-dont.html

I would be beside myself with rage if a visitor left a used tampon in my bin!

Why? Rage? Really?

If you flush because you don't like the thought of emptying them out of the bins/wouldn't like other people to put them in your bin then spare a thought for the person who has to unblock goodness knows how many tampons and whatever other horrors are lurking in the sewers.

I can not comprehend how people think it's ok to flush tampons.

Clearly they don't disintegrate in water, otherwise they would fall apart inside you, so they shouldn't enter our sewer system.

If I am ever without a bin to hand, I wrap it up as much as I can and find the nearest bin, or wait until there's one available.

These threads always get so weird. It is not ok to fail to cater for menstruating women. Think of all the (perfectly reasonable imo) adjustments that people argue you should make for various groups, but when it is women people seem to suggest women should put up and shut up.

Sorry to hear about how difficult it is for you OP. In the meantime, while society adjusts, some of the reusable sanpro websites sell little waterproof, resuable bags for putting used sanitary products into, and I presume they would work fine for disposables too!

Are people genuinely precious about visitors using their bathroom bins to dispose of bathroom waste? Really, really, you're not just having laugh?

I am wondering if people have a list of what is and isn't allowed in their precious bathroom bin. They have got one-great! But nobody can use it.

It's common courtesy to wrap up your used sanpro and take them home, not leave then in strangers' bins. The fab little bags are great for this situation, or just use nappy sacks if they're too expensive.

They float out to sea eventually and the fish have a good suck or chomp, whatever they fancy really. Do you for one moment think this is the worst thing to go down the sewers? As for putting tampons in plastic bags etc. then putting them in some bin, what do you think happens then? Landfill and no bio-degrading.

I use a mooncup. We have a drainage system that seems to congregate in our garden. OH spent the majority of a special day (with plans) unblocking and clearing a ton of tampons from the drain. Gross. They blocked it so much that EVERYTHING was in there.

We couldn't afford to call anyone out.

Don't flush tampons. It's just wrong.

I would be beside myself with rage if a visitor left a used tampon in my bin

I hope you dont dispose of sanitary products anywhere where someone else has to deal with it.

hesterton, would you SERIOUSLY leave a used tampon behind in someone elses house????

utterly gross.

The absolute most appalling manners possible.

I can't believe anyone thinks that is ok.

I definitely can't believe the OP feels hard done by because she can't!

Wrap it up in bog roll and put in kitchen bin no difference to you doing same as putting it in bathroom bin. Maybe I'm just minging as I own a toilet bush but no bin in the loo.

Are people genuinely precious about visitors using their bathroom bins to dispose of bathroom waste? Really, really, you're not just having laugh?

I know right! Bathroom bins are for bathroom waste. Such as a tampon discreetly wrapped in toilet paper. Bathroom bins should be lidded anyway.