To be baffled by people who don't put liners in their bathroom bins

[witchofzog]

At least 2 of my friends don't. When I moved in with dp I realised he doesn't. And my job involves me being in people's homes and many of them don't either.

I just don't get it. We don't do this with our kitchen bins which albeit are a lot messier, but some unsavoury things go in bathroom bins too

I find it really grim when I realise that dp has emptied the bathroom bin and not put a liner in it. Inevitably one of us will end up scraping one of the dsd's partially wrapped sanitary towels from the side of the bin. We wouldn't have to do this if there was a liner.

Do you put a liner in yours?

I always line mine! I clean the bin itself, obviously but a liner stops the bin getting half as grotty and makes disposal much easier.

I also don't line my bin. No need. I don't in the kitchen either. We compost, recycle and rarely have icky waste.

A lot of people don't put messy stuff in there. Basically just loo roll rolls. But if you've got someone menstrating in the house you really must have bin liners.

And what is the obsession with saving plastic? You can just get biodegradable ones at that size from any supermarket

Thank you Roomsonfire. I will have to look into those

We use an plastic bag in the bathroom bin, but empty the bag into the big binbag when emptying all the bins and re-use the bag.
I do prefer liners.

I don’t line mine because its one that matches the rest of the bathroom accessories. A liner would ruin it.
But ours is just used for empty toiletry stuff and bits like that.

I'm baffled by people who have bathroom bins. Why wouldn't you take your rubbish with you when you leave the bathroom and put it in the kitchen bin?

I'm going against the grain here, but YADNBU.

Besides bagged moist, toilet paper and sanitary products, there are all the moist, slimy, used things.

Dental floss, sticky labels, wipes, toilet paper used to wipe hair dye and face masks and used cotton buds.

Liners are a must.

Because teenage girls don't want to parade their used sanpro though the house bella. Our house is relatively small and to get to the kitchen you have to walk though the living room.

We don't have one

Too grim

No bathroom bin here, I find them grim.

There are no sanpro users in our house (I haven’t had a period in years because of my mirena), so nothing messy goes in our bathroom bins.

They all have convenient lift out buckets that can be washed out after emptying anyway.

Totally agree. Gross stuff goes in there- used tampons, wet wipes.... maybe individually wrapped but still need to be contained. I agree with trying to reduce plastic use, but there's a time and a place where it's needed, and kitchen and bathroom bin bags is it.

Oh my days. I bloody hate threads like this, they always make me such a slattern. Yes I am guilty of sometimes slinging a shitty nappy in the kitchen bin and sometimes, when I can’t be arsed finding a bag, I don’t line my bathroom bin with a bag.

If that makes me an utter minger, then so be it - I own this😩

Maybe people have bathroom bins because they don't want used sanpro in the kitchen bin?

Odd thing to be baffled by. Trump - yes. Why Farage continues to be newsworthy - yes. Why we've had no snow here - yes. Bathroom bin liners? Not so much.

If anything I'll use the bag from the loo roll as a liner, but I wouldn't find one especially as I think it's unnecessary plastic when you can wash the bin out easily. Most of the stuff that goes in the bathroom bin is recyclable and needs sorting anyway so even a small 4 roll bag wouldn't be filled over a month.

Our bins are collected every 3 weeks, so if I used sanpro I wouldn't leave it in the bathroom that long. However, I use a mooncup so that's not an issue.

Urgh yes, liners here. The recyclables go into a different bin (unlined) so everything in the bathroom bin is icky - sanpro, cotton buds, condoms etc. I hadn't really thought about it as a source of plastic waste, though, so perhaps I'll try emptying out the contents but not necessarily changing the liner if it's not dirty.

Always supprised at the number of people putting loo rolls and shampoo bottles into the bathroom bin. Straight out to recycling with those, no way do I want to go through the used tissues etc to fish them out later.

I line, but tend to tip out the contents and reuse the liner 3 weeks of the month, the fourth is tied up and binned.

off topic a little but can I just point out biodegradable bags aren't good for the environment at all if they are going to landfill.

yes they break down in landfills, but landfill is oft deprived of oxygen so those biodegradable bags produce methane instead which is much much worse for the environment.

www.materialsforengineering.co.uk/engineering-materials-features/time-to-ban-biodegradable-plastic/74815/

if you have biodegradable plastics they are best off in your own compost but don't expect them to compost as fast as claimed!

Its also another reason to try to limit food waste going to landfill and monitoring how much you buy/cook to minimise disposal.

If you must use landfill its best, for the moment at least, to either stick to plastic or go without.

I don't have a bin in any of my bathrooms xx

But if you've got someone menstrating in the house you really must have bin liners

Must?! Why?

I'm baffled by people who have bathroom bins. Why wouldn't you take your rubbish with you when you leave the bathroom and put it in the kitchen bin?

Why bother?! I use the bathroom bin usually last thing at night unless it's period week. I'm not getting all ready for bed then traipsing to the kitchen

No as it's only empty bottles loo rolls or rolled up towels.. I just wash the liner every other week

YANBU.

I put a swing bin liner into the bin in our bedroom and the bathroom bin. When I empty out bins I take the fullest of those, empty wastepaper baskets and the lined kitchen bin (so latter is double bagged) into it and then put it in the wheelie bin.

We have a second bin in the bathroom for recylables.