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Nappies in the kitchen bin

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MountCrumpit · 26/12/2017 17:43

Over the course of Christmas we've visited, and been visited by my sister and her family. My DN is 2 and obviously in nappies.
Both at hers, and ours, I've noticed a pile of soiled (varying degrees) nappies going into the kitchen bin and staying there for however long it takes the bin to get full.

Now I'm a bit weird about bins, never put anything wet in them, taken out every day etc... But I find keeping soiled nappies inside the house, in the kitchen bin, repulsive!
AIBU? Would I quickly get over it if I had kids if my own?

OP posts:
MichaelFabricantsHair · 27/12/2017 18:14

don't understand people who tip the poo out of the (disposable) nappy into the loo

Because the less shit sitting in my wheelie bin for 2 weeks, the better.

snackarella · 27/12/2017 18:18

Mine go into a nappy sack and straight out the back door. Then into wheelie bin as I go
Out.
Kitchen bin is gross

Bumplovin · 27/12/2017 18:19

We have a nappy sanitiser bin it's been a godsend it doesn't smell

FartnissEverbeans · 27/12/2017 18:42

"Mine go straight in a wheelie bin!" - riiiiiight. I definitely believe you Hmm

So where does everyone put their babies and toddlers while they nip out to their back gardens in December? Because when I'm in alone with my 14mo, I am not leaving my flat to visit the chute across the hall with him in one hand and a shitty nappy in the other. Neither am I leaving him in the flat with the door unlatched while he screams the house down because I've left the room.

Nappy bags are incredibly bad for the environment too. I hope you're all buying biodegradable ones?

They get wrapped up and put in a bin bag, in a bin, in the laundry room, with the door shut.

I wonder if there is any overlap on the Venn diagram of those who throw their nappies straight in the wheelie bin vs. those who clean their bins with the same cloths they use for the work tops?

hazeyjane · 27/12/2017 18:48

I'm not an obsessed with hygiene, Dettol swigging, loo brush shunning, Marigold wearing person who thinks a crappy nappy is like napalm......but ds's nappies (even triple bagged) reek to high heaven. They have to be out of the house ASAP.

SparkleFizz · 27/12/2017 18:49

Our wheelie bin is directly outside our door. I can lob a nappy into it while still keeping one foot inside the house.

So it’s as easy for me to put the soiled nappy straight into the wheelie bin as it would be for me to put the soiled nappy into an inside bin.

I’m willing to concede that I might think differently about always putting soiled nappies into outside bins if the outside bin involved some massive trek.

Lilymoose · 27/12/2017 18:49

Human shit is not supposed to go to landfill! It should be flushed as much as possible.

Sleepyblueocean · 27/12/2017 18:57

Soiled nappies are bagged and put straight into the outside bin. I do sometimes flush it but sometimes it doesn't flush (older child not a baby) and there is the fun and games of trying to get rid and I can't be bothered with it.

Florin · 27/12/2017 19:44

We had friends who used to put soiled nappies in our kitchen bin and they didn’t believe in bags-grim!
I also have an issue with a family member just changing babies in the middle of the sitting room with everyone there seriously take them out of the room for their dignity and us not having to deal with the sights and smells! I never changed my son in front of anyone I always found somewhere else to do it no one else needs to see that!

MrsKoala · 27/12/2017 20:11

It's got to depend where your wheelie bin is kept. For mine i have to open 2 front doors and walk about 20 metres. It's easier to have a nappy 'holding bay' and do a once a day trip then try to sneak out 4 times a day while 3 children try to follow you or hilariously slam the front door (i won't get caught out 3rd time you bags of horror!!).

ValentinaCat · 27/12/2017 20:13

We've always had to put them in the kitchen bin. We don't have an outside bin. We live on a busy inner London road.

MrsKoala · 27/12/2017 20:19

I used to live in an upstairs flat on a London road and no outside bin .It was the summer of 2003 - which was a scorcher. We had to keep our rubbish in our flat till the morning of the weekly collection because of foxes and no space outside (no wheelie bins - just black bags on the pavement). The smell of sweet rotting food still makes me think of that time - thank fuck i didn't have kids because the thought of dirty nappies too is unthinkable.

Neverender · 27/12/2017 20:24

YANBU - they go straight out of the back door and then in the wheely bin!

Raisinbrain · 27/12/2017 20:47

Once they've been suitably bagged - double bagged if stinky - they go in the kitchen bin. Honestly who cares what's in the bin?! As long as it doesn't smell what does it matter? If I do dump one straight in the wheelie bin I feel guilty because then the binmen have to deal with them.

fliptopbin · 27/12/2017 21:08

I developed a fail safe system. My DS's room was directly above the wheelie bin, so I would leave the wheelie bin lid open, bag up the nappy and lob it out of the window into the bin.

MichaelFabricantsHair · 27/12/2017 21:19

Once they've been suitably bagged - double bagged if stinky - they go in the kitchen bin. Honestly who cares what's in the bin?! As long as it doesn't smell what does it matter? If I do dump one straight in the wheelie bin I feel guilty because then the binmen have to deal with them

Do the bin men not have to eventually deal with the ones you've put in your kitchen bin then? Confused

FartnissEverbeans · 27/12/2017 21:45

Do the bin men not have to eventually deal with the ones you've put in your kitchen bin then? confused

At least they're in bin liners and not unrolling directly inside the wheelie bin, potentially leaving big stinking smears of shit all over it.

I really don't think people should be so smug about putting their nappies out straight away - it's grim and impractical

MichaelFabricantsHair · 27/12/2017 22:03

I really don't think people should be so smug about putting their nappies out straight away - it's grim and impractical

Who's being smug? Confused
Besides, as a self-confessed shit-flicker, there was no big stinking smears of shit all over my wheelie bin. Maybe down the porcelain which I scrubbed with a bogbrush shock horror, but not my bin Grin

LineysRunner · 27/12/2017 22:10

I'm not smug about not having my kitchen stinking of shit. I'm Fucking relieved.

MichaelFabricantsHair · 27/12/2017 22:15

I wouldn't empty a potty into my kitchen bin, what's the difference?

Put what you like in your kitchen bin, it's not me that has to smell it.

hazeyjane · 27/12/2017 22:16

My wheelie bin is no fragrant palace, but there are no smears of shit in there, as the nappies go in a nappy bag (or 2....). Then there is a bin bag on the wheelie bin.

I don't think I'm being smug, just trying to minimise shit reek.

SparkleFizz · 27/12/2017 22:44

If I do dump one straight in the wheelie bin I feel guilty because then the binmen have to deal with them.

Not really seeing the issue here? I’ve seen the binmen collecting our rubbish loads of times.
The binmen just wheel the wheelie bin to the bin lorry, then the mechanised arms on the bin lorry lift up the wheelie bin and tip the rubbish in. I’ve never seen the mechanised arms tip the rubbish all over the road or anything like that. Binmen then take empty wheelie bin back to kerb.
It’s not like the binmen are having to manually take nappy bags out of the wheelie bin, or like having the bagged nappies in the wheelie bin individually rather than in the kitchen bin’s black bags causes extra work for them, is it? Confused

LineysRunner · 27/12/2017 22:48

Exactly, Sparkle.

BertieBotts · 27/12/2017 23:41

Used to put poo nappies, bagged, in the main bin - which was in the kitchen. Wee nappies just went in there on their own. I can't remember how often I used to empty the bin - maybe once every 2-3 days? I would take it out earlier if it did smell but this was normally food related. We had a cat litter tray as well and so that went into the same bin - normally wrapped in a lot of newspaper and then bagged.

I never found there was a smell, and smells bother me quite a lot, I didn't really like having the litter tray because of it and always used to clean cat poos out of there immediately. I think the idea of a designated nappy bin is much more gross TBH because who knows how long they will sit in there before being emptied?

Also - someone said nappies get less offensive as they get older? Confused I found the opposite - once they were eating more solids they got really rank! And perfectly normal for a 2yo to be in nappies, I've never known anybody to potty train before 2 years old TBH.

BertieBotts · 27/12/2017 23:42

Ah but Sparkle not all areas have compatible bins and bin lorries, so sometimes they do have to hoik them out manually. You tend to be given special council binbags in those areas though IME.