to expect a bin in the bathroom?

[IsabelleSE19]

Recently I've stayed with a very dear friend of mine and close family of DH's. Both households are very hospitable and I love visiting them. BUT. In neither case was there a bin in the bathroom, and in one of them there wasn't even one in the guest bedroom. AIBU not to want to put used cotton pads/buds and sanitary stuff back into my sponge bag, or cart it round the house in my hands looking for a bin?

ghosty, you're spot on.

Why on earth would you think it's even remotely acceptable to leave your used sanitary wear for other people to sort through!!!!!!!!!! That's utterly fucking disgusting.

What kind of weirdo sorts through bathroom bins? And yes, I've read your later posts about recycling. But in our house, we put things for recycling in the recycling bin, so no lucky individual has to root through the bathroom bin. On the odd occasion when something recyclable HAS been put in that bin, it's been large and bulky (e.g. shampoo bottle) and easy to pull out for recycling without having to go forensically through the rest.

I hate staying in houses with no bathroom bin, stealing through the house trying to hide my wrapped tampon case/pad/dental floss/whatever while I look 'casually' round for somewhere to dump it.

And I wonder if those who don't have bins have very light periods? I need to change about every 2 hours, so it is not just 1 towel I would have to take away.

If I had a bathroom bin, I'd have to go through it to remove toilet paper holders, recyclable plastic, glass containers, etc from the rubbish that could only go to landfill

But surely you could explain to members of your household that recyclables shouldn't go in the bathroom bin - it's strictly for hygiene items such as cotton buds and sanitary items.

You could easily explain to guests: "all our recyclables go into X bin" - and/or accept that it wouldn't be the end of the world if the odd piece of recyclable cardboard got in amongst the things you weren't going to sort through.

What a waste of bags it's must be having no bins. You must use a bag per day which is so bad for the environment.

I love the judgement for people who leave sanitary wear in a friend's bin. Only on MN.

Springer I agree about the false timesavers. We have one general bin, one recyclables and one food waste bin. All in the kitchen. The back yard is usually inclement this time of year so I go there as little as possible!

Agree with chipmunk on the logic of the bathroom bin, from lining to recycling.

Ghosty I chuckled when I read your first post, before putting my feet up and getting out the popcorn. Feeling the deja vu.

Loving the weirdness of rubbish sorting in the house as well - Springer, everyone I know sorts as they bin. I have two bins in my kitchen - one for landfill one for recycling. Why would you put everything into one and then have to root through it?

But I would be your ultimate weirdo because I (shock horror) have two small bins in my bathroom. One lidded for sanitary waste, used cotton wool etc, and one paper one for recyclables like loo roll inners. Works for me!

But dh is Greek, and as the majority of Greek buildings have inadequate waste pipes, the rule there is that your used toilet paper goes in the bin. Bins are emptied every day, but yes if you go to the toilet in a restaurant, you will have to sit next to a bin filled with paper soiled by other people's urine and faeces.

I'm off to get some more snacks ready for the rest of the show (OP, YANBU)

Nora...no bag. I wrap them in loo roll! Straight out to the bin.

Brasty...no...I have heavy periods, which is exactly why I take them out immediately! Can you imagine how disgusting that bin would be by the end of the day!?

*Because it's not the early 80s anymore and we don't stupidly send everything to landfill. All the rubbish in my house (and I assumed everyone's house) gets sorted into different bins so anything recyclable can be recycled. If I had a bathroom bin, I'd have to go through it to remove toilet paper holders, recyclable plastic, glass containers, etc from the rubbish that could only go to landfill.

And no I don't have any bin, kitchen or otherwise, in my house. They are pretty disgusting and pointless in the era of recycling. Why would I want to have to remove a day old slimy banana peel that's half stuck to a cornflakes box and half in a dog food tin at the end of every day, instead of immediately taking them outside and sorting them into the right containers. Indoor bins are false timesavers that actually create a load of gross and unnecessary work.*

Don't talk to me about reducing landfil - I compost EVERYTHING, grow my own veg, feed scraps to the pig, recycle anything that can be. But in your scenario I would be either walking outside non-stop to take every piece of waste out, or leaving piles of gathering waste until I get a chance to move them.

My bathroom bin gets sorted before anything goes in i.e. Loo roll inners and bottles would be left out and taken seperately to recycling boxes. But everything else... dental floss, cotton wool, snotty tissues, and yes...sanitary towels... goes straight in.

To those saying proudly they have no bins... I assume that means you have to have your outside bins (that really do stink, attract flies and vermin) reasonably close to your back door to make that work... to be honest, I think I'd rather have inside bins that get emptied daily with the outside ones well away from the house.

Having had several blockages in my loo I have a strictly no flushing tampons in my bathroom.

I now have two bins. One for the recyclables - loo roll tubes, bottles etc - and one small lidded bin for used sanitary stuff, cotton wool, non recyclables the lot. Use small black bin liners and you don't even know whats in there when you change the bin. Unless you root through it.

Yes! everyone knows and everyone female who visits wraps and bins in my bathroom bin. Some are comfortable to bin them straight out in my wheelie bin. Its a towel/tampon not nuclear waste though some of you act as though it is

Do any of you flush tampons in other peoples houses?? :O

Sorting through bins? No, we recycle as we go. We have a recycling basket upstairs and one downstairs in the kitchen. Bathroom recyclables such as loo roll tubes and empty plastic bottles go straight in the basket. Things like used tampons and cotton wool go in the bathroom bin. It all seems quite simple!

Lots of mentions of cotton buds, as if they are as much of a necessity as toilet paper.

I have none, what am I doing wrong? What should I be using them for?

Ooh a 'bin in the bathroom' thread.

In this house we have a small pedal bin in the bathroom with a liner which I empty daily. I don't pay any attention to the contents, just knot it up and take it out.

Empty shampoo bottles, loo roll inners etc go in the recycling completely bypassing the bin. Why would you add them to the bin just to take them out again?

And no I don't want a mooncup ta very much.

YANBU OP.

faff I use cotton buds when putting on make up, to get rid of any excess.

User how often do you have to go out to the bin though? What about things like kitchen waste etc. I have to walk down a flight of stairs and across a car park to an outside bin so putting everything straight out there would be insane.

We have 2 bins in the kitchen.

One for general waste, one for recycling. Glass goes straight outside into the glass box (usually kept right outside the back door). All recycling other than glass can be put together into the recycling wheelie bin where we are. So no need to rootle through bins sorting waste here.

The family know to take recyclable waste straight from the bathroom to the recycling bin in the kitchen, so it's only guests who might put recyclable stuff (e.g. toilet roll middles) in the bathroom bin. That's not enough of an issue for me to sort through the bathroom bin before chucking the contents in our general waste bin.

But dh is Greek, and as the majority of Greek buildings have inadequate waste pipes, the rule there is that your used toilet paper goes in the bin. Bins are emptied every day, but yes if you go to the toilet in a restaurant, you will have to sit next to a bin filled with paper soiled by other people's urine and faeces

It's the same in a lot of Lanzarote too. We stayed in an apartment last year where you had to do this and the big bins where the waste went were about 100 yards away so every day we had to take a bag of used toilet paper all the way down the road to the bin. I thought about what the Mumsnet hygiene freaks and toilet obsessives would think of that .

What a waste of bags it's must be having no bins. You must use a bag per day which is so bad for the environment.

Bag per week here.

nemo my bins are in my front garden as far away from the front of my house as possible. It also means I don't have to put them out on bin day. Everything that goes into the general waste bin is bagged and DE sprinkled in once a week along with bin wash every two weeks.

So is the bag is a bin but without an outer holder?

Twatbadger - does anyone flush tampons these days? Surely not?!? I thought that died with the 80s - and I haven't seen one on a beach for ages, thank goodness.

People do flush tampons sadly. On a thread like this not long ago people were proudly proclaiming their tampon flushing.