Nappies in the kitchen bin

[MountCrumpit]

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?

As if this thread wasn’t bokeworthy enough, someone used the word ‘plops’ in reference to their kids disgusting faeces deposits. 🤮🤮🤮🤮

I’m actually a big fan of “plops”.

Kitchen bin but well away from surfaces. We're all still alive and well.

My kitchen bin is a carrier bag hanging on the kitchen door. Wet ones go in the bag (which gets put in the wheelie bin every night) and soiled nappies to straight out in the wheelie bin. I'm not sure how a wet nappy in a bag/indoor bin is a health hazard... I don't swill my hand round the bin or dig about in the wet nappy once it's disposed of . Although my DS is 2.2yo so maybe I'm a shit mum and lazy moo that he's even still in nappies 🙄

...am I the only one here that uses a specific nappy bin? The kind that twists the bag around each individual nappy to prevent odour (and going outside 10x a day... especially handy if you live in a flat!)

Grim. I don't know what's wrong with some people.

i don't know how some people can be so neurotic! thank goodness we'll soon all be outmoded by robots and contemplating the filthy business of functioning human bodies will no longer apply

I’m surprised that more people don’t use a specifically designed nappy bin tbh, I thought they were in more common use.
We have an Angelcare bin upstairs and downstairs (they weren’t expensive) and all nappies go in there. They hold the smells well! If I didn’t have one, then everything would go in the kitchen bin - with pooey nappies in a nappy bag. I could not be bothered with going to the bin for every poo, and I think single unwrapped nappies in a wheelie bin is much grosser than safely inside a bin bag. Our next door neighbour used to put their nappies straight out, and several times on bin day a nappy would be left on the pavement, obviously been dropped in the emptying process.
At someone else’s house I ask.

These sort of threads always make me think that vulnerable mumsnetters will be left all anxious and unable to relax in the face of this 'perfect hygiene' and 'right way' to do things.

Fuck the right way, I do my life the easy way. Sometimes things are lovely and perfect and sometimes less so. But nobody ever gets sick or notices any bloody difference except me!

From the looks of things I am going to get labelled as gross but I use the kitchen bin and I don't use nappy bags either (I think that nappies cause enough harm to the environment without adding plastic bags if I can help it). My bin has a lid and is well away from any surfaces and food areas. We empty it regularly and it doesn't smell (if it did then I would take it out). We are all still alive and to be honest until I saw this post I never gave it much thought. Not sure what people think will happen if they put soiled nappies in the kitchen bin, it's not like it is coming into contact with food etc. I know plenty of people who do the same and they are all fine too.

Saraoshea, the voice of reason.

Not sure what people think will happen if they put soiled nappies in the kitchen bin

That my kitchen will stink of shit? Maybe your DC produced fragrant parcels of poo but mine didn't.

what @saraoshea said. we are all still alive, not committing even more unnecessary plastic to manufacture and landfill, and our house doesn't smell at all. what on earth are you double baggers feeding your children!

Oh fuck off with this shit, seriously. As if it isn't hard enough to be a parent to a young baby without people yapping about where you put your nappies. It's not like the nappy is going to crawl out of the bin and smear its shitty contents over the worktops

Maybe I will try one of those special nappy bins with DC2. I always thought they were a bit of a waste of time because the special cartridge things were expensive and people went on about them smelling of poo all the time so I thought why bother, it obviously doesn't work. But we are and will be in a flat for the forseeable future and I don't really know what to do with nappies otherwise, so maybe it's worth a try?

@buncakes for PM!

@buncakes you sound like my kind of people!

Not neurotic, (well not about this anyway!) Ds is 7, he has bowel issues, honestly if the nappy wasn't bagged multiple times and put straight out, it would get up and walk out, tainting the house with it's shitey odour, sticking 2 fingers up and telling everyone to fuck off.

We only have a kitchen bin. It's a studio. No outdoor bin... Nappies must go in the kitchen bin, then taken out daily in a tied bag and dumped on the street for the bin-men in the morning.

We have a Sangenic nappy bin. As a PP mentioned the replacement cartridges can be very expensive for any nappy bin. I recently discovered a product called wrapooh which fits into the empty cartridges and is a lot cheaper. It says it lasts 10x longer than a normal cartridge. We have saved a lot of money and haven’t noticed any smells escaping. You need to keep the empty cartridges to fill them up yourself.