Nursery sending home dirty nappies ?

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Dd has started nursery recently it's a lovely place and she's been settling in well.

Really confused today though her dirty nappies were in nappy sacks in her nursery bag? (the bag with her spare clothes etc)

Is this a common practice? It seems really bizarre to me?

ours sends them home - no nappy bin, not allowed to black bag them in our village

yuk! I'd hate that

The nursery attached to my old school did this. Waste removal costs were extortionate and there would have been an entire bin just for the nappies each week...

If they disposed of them from the nursery they would probably have to pay to have them taken away as hazardous waste for incineration so would be very expensive.

So to cut costs, they're sending them home with parents to dispose of as domestic waste, which might not actually be legal. If you really want to make a thing of it OP, try your local council waste people.

That's completely fair if they would be charged to dispose of them. I'm fine with popping them in our home wheelie bin.

Just a shock emptying the nursery bag when you aren't expecting it I suppose

they tie ours to the outside of the childs backpack, using the nappysack. no nasty surprises...

Not normal! Our nursery disposes of them!

A number of local authorities are starting to charge nurseries and childminders to dispose of nappies. They have no other financial option but to send them home to be thrown away by the parents.
If that's the reason I would have expected you to have been made aware though rather than to just discover a dirty nappy in your bag.

Uh I'm glad my childminder doesn't do this. It's disgusting in my opinion. As for doing it so parents know how many dirty nappies DC have had, surely writing it in their diary works just as well.

Whaaaat! So shocked at this!
We get rid of all nappies ourselves, we have a yellow wheelie bin that gets emptied by a company each week. We have only had this for about 6 months though and prior to this we put our bin bags full of nappies in with our normal rubbish. We only got the yellow bin because our other bin was getting abit too full.

Can't believe other nurseries send dirty nappies home in children's bags! Surely that leaves the whole nursery and children's peg area stinking? I can just imagine children getting into their bags looking for a toy or something and... I don't even want to think about it!

WhyNotDuckie did they not have daily record forms to tell you that? Or could they not just tell you verbally?
I'm kind of disgusted at the idea of dirty nappies being sent home but also kind of interested at how other settings go about things so differently! Hmm

Perhaps they had a new worker there whos previous nursery sent them home, so thought the policy was the same at yours

My dc's preschool does this because they can't afford to pay the council for a nappy collection (it's extortionate and they're a small, non profit organisation so I quite understand). What it means in practice is that everyone puts their nappies in the first bin they pass in the street outside, so it's always overflowing with nappies!

No way! So it's not unusual for a nursery cloakroom to have multiple bags of shit festering in there all day long? That is putrid.

Our nursery puts any wet/soiled clothes in a nappy bag to put in the nursery bag to take home. I expect they just got the nappy bags mixed up.

Not normal practice where I've worked, disgusting 😷

At my son's nursery, they did it so that parents would know how many dirty nappies their child had had that day.

There are less disgusting ways of doing that!

Christ that's really grim. Surely it stinks / is unhygienic? You can't have human waste hanging around all day, especially not in the summer, bagged or not.

I work in a pack away setting in a village hall. We send all used nappies home, soiled or just wet. We aren't allowed to put them in the wheelie bin. We can't get a special service either.

I find it a bit grim but that's how it has to be.

I think for playgroups/playschools - ie 2-3 hours nursery this is fine, they are generally low cost in village hall or similar so buying in a nappy service would be too costly - a lot of places no longer allow you to simply place nappies in the 'black bag' any more

for private nurseries where you pay for all day care - ie 8am - 6pm then I would expect for a nappy service to be included - you can't have nappies hanging around all day in childrens bags...

I think it's super grim for all day childcare. And surely would spread germs?

Our DCs' nursery disposes of nappies (we have to supply them though). They make notes within each DC's book for wet and soiled nappies each day (along with food and milk drunk and nap duration, etc.).

At dc's preschool they have a special bin outside where they put the soiled nappies in nappy sacks with the child's name on a label. You have to rummage for your child's.

I'm a childminder and given we have two weekly collections, I'll be sending nappies home too. Otherwise, that is up to two weeks of dirty nappies in MY bin for up to three children..........

Might smell a bit, Hamster, but how would it spread germs??