DS emptying DD's bin?

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DS's job is to empty the bins in the house the day before rubbish collection day. He has just told me that DH said he is not to empty DD's bin as it has sanitary towels in it. They are in bloody plastic sanitary towel bags so aren't smelly and aren't going to leap out and bite him or rub blood off onto him for cripes sake!

AIBU to tell DH and DS that he can bloody well empty the bin and carry on doing so each week regardless of its contents?

Hopefully at one stage in his life he will have a wife and I can't imagine her falling for his not being able to empty the bathroom bin because it may have used sanitary (adequately covered) protection in it.

Both children are teenagers are perfectly able to voice any objections they may have. If the dd doesn't want her brother to empty her bin she could empty it herself. If the ds doesn't want to empty her bin he could say so and presumably be paid a bit less for his chore. Neither of them appear to be in the least bit bothered by the current arrangements however. It is the dh who doesn't like it, and frankly it doesn't appear to be anything to do with him.

We clean our house as a family and whoever decides/is volunteered for the bathrooms empties the bins (they also get to clean the catlitter boxes). That may be me, dd, ds or dh. It's a bit of a dirty job, but it's also the quickest one so not unpopular.

We don't put recyclables in the bathroom bins, but we also don't individually bag up sanitary towels (we don't use tampons though, perhaps they come with a little bag to stick them in?) we just use a supermarket shopping bag for a liner, tie the top and throw in the wheelie bin.dd and I both have painful periods so dh and ds know when we are having them. Not an issue to me, nor is putting pads on the list when it's the turn of dh or ds to do the shopping.

Growing up we weren't even allowed to keep sanitary supplies in the bathroom in case my father saw them and was somehow dmaged by the experience of seeing the box/package. He had three daughters! Ridiculous, no way was that happening in my home.

The kid is doing a chore for pocket money.

It is in no way more particularly disgusting that what you would ever find in bins.

I can't believe this is even a subject of controversy. He's not being asked to clean the bathroom after she bled all over it, he's being asked to empty the bin.

It's not cleaning up her bodily fluids, it's emptying the bin.

It's a chore. He gets pocket money. End of story.

Yanbu op I just did s big post and it failed to post but anyway my son's also empty the bins sometimes and they have contained sanitary products and post birth pads and they have no issue with this. Any sanitary waste us always wrapped. Currently bfeeding so no periods buy they deal with breast pads, nappies etc that need to be put in the bin and have no issues buying sanitary products though currently it's breast pads they are likely to have to pick up.

But then ds1 has seen me give birth and we don't have issues with nudity either so we are quite relaxed on that front.