To panic about bathroom bins (or lack of)?

[likeacrow]

Always wondered this if at someone's house and notice they don't have a bathroom bin. What the fuck are you supposed to do with your used period paraphernalia if on the blob? Take it home with you? Make a little parcel and attempt to smuggle it into to another bin? Try to force it down the bog?!?
Why don't people just have a bathroom bin...? What do you do if you don't have one (and are a menstruating female)??

I don't want used sanpro sitting in my bin for days.
The only family member that uses the bathroom bin for sanpro is my teenage daughter- and when I see the clues that she is on her period I empty the bin every day and change the bin liner each time.
It's only us that uses the family bathroom.
Guests use the downstairs toilet- and there I have no bin.

So for example if you are staying in a hotel or eating in a restaurant, would you leave used sanpro in the bathroom bins in this situation

But they are usually not domestic bathroom bins.
They are disposal systems usually manage by specialist waste companies, who remove the entire bin in a van and replace a clean one.

Not in a hotel, I don't think, and not necessarily in small restaurants (I'm not talking about the huge sanny bins in service station loos or shopping centres). They usually seem to be small bathroom bins like people have in their homes, emptied by the chambermaid. Is it disgusting to leave used sanpro in a hotel bathroom bin for the chambermaid to empty?

We have no bins at all in my house, Neither does my mil, my mum however seems to have a bin or two is every single room. Just pop it in a nappy sack in your pocket/bag and dispose in a wheelie bin.

No visible bin in the bathroom but there is one in the unit under the sink, it never occurred to me that visitors might need to use the bin. I go through the bin to remove recycling, toilet roll tubes and plastic bottles. No guest has ever left san pro in our bin, maybe they didn't know where it was!

I just don't get what's wrong with putting wrapped san pro in a bathroom bin, it's a bin, it's for gross things. Would you expect your guests to piss in a plastic bag and take that home so as not to befoul your toilet?

I go through the bin to remove recycling, toilet roll tubes and plastic bottles

Yes I go "fishing" though the bin for that reason.
A good two thirds of the waste is for recycling.
I don't just tie up the bag and chuck it in general waste.

It's mostly shampoo and shower gel bottles, cardboard tubes, cardboard boxes from toothpaste tubes etc.

I'm surprised to hear a lot of posters don't recycle this stuff.

I usually keep that stuff separate, I wouldn't choose to go through a bathroom bin and I wouldn't expect it to be pleasant.

No recycling even makes it into the bathroom bin here.Cardboard loo rolls/bottles go straight into the recycling wheelie. No fishing or double handling stuff required.

I don't " double handle" my sanpro stuff either- straight in the main bin.

I just take the bathroom bin out every day without even looking in it.

snuggybuggy
"Would you expect your guests to piss in a plastic bag and take that home so as not to befoul your toilet?"
Bah ha ha haa!
God this thread is brilliant. Even if I do say so myself.

I wish I could meet some of these bizarre human beings who find the idea of sanny pads being put in a bathroom bin or even the whole concept of a bathroom bin utterly unspeakable. Can you imagine if you ever took a dump in their bog and left skidders (as clearly a bog brush on show would be far too vulgar). What would they DO?!?
Mental.

*Yes I go "fishing" though the bin for that reason.
A good two thirds of the waste is for recycling.
I don't just tie up the bag and chuck it in general waste.

It's mostly shampoo and shower gel bottles, cardboard tubes, cardboard boxes from toothpaste tubes etc.

I'm surprised to hear a lot of posters don't recycle this stuff*

Who says they don't recyle?

I recycle absolutely everything - I have a large recycling caddy downstairs and a small one upstairs so we sort as we go.

There's absolutely no need to fish about in a bin; far easier and quicker to sort as you go along.

I also don't line my bathroom bin, no need for excess packaging, just a wipe out every week.

Very inhospitable to not provide a bathroom bin for guests/visitors (it should have a liner and lid too so it's discreet).

Obviously you should always carry a poop scoop for that eventuality

It's a boast, re no of bathrooms!

We have no bins at all in my house - do you honestly go out to the wheely bin everytime you need to get rid of a sweet wrapper, food packaging, used tissue etc etc - I must generate more rubbish than most people as I have a bin in every room plus another one for recycling,

omg yes its awful when people dont have bins... was at a friends house once.. a female friends house which was full of people at the time and she had no bin in the downstairs loo.... TMI but my tampon was absolutely flooded and just fell out practically when I went to the loo.. had to wrap it in toilet paper but then had no where to put it! Couldnt sneak it thru to put in kitchen or upstairs bathroom bin because house full of people... ended up having to wrap it up in loads and loads of toilet roll and put it in my handbag to dispose of later... it was so so grim.....
I make sure theres a bin in an obvious place in my bathrooms now I dont want anyone to go thru that... and a bin with a bag and a lid... not just a basket

This thread is hilarious and I have often wondered the same myself OP.

and I think its very odd to rifle thru bins for recycling... surely you just keep recycling separate at the outset rather than fling it in a bin that youd then have to sort thru?
I put empty shampoo bottles and toilet roll inners at the top of the stairs to take straight down to the recycling when I next go downstairs.
Bathroom bins are for minging items like used sanpro, tissues, hair, used cotton buds, cleaning wipes, toenails etc who on earth wants to rifle thru that?

letsallhaveanap Exactly. That's what we do.

also its really odd that some people would rather have guests putting used sanitary products in their handbags than just emptying their bathroom bin each day.... only on mumsnet

do you carry your empty loo roll/toothpaste box/tissues/cotton wool pads, empty cleaning products etc etc to another bin all the time?

Empty aerosols, plastic bottles/jars and anything cardboard or glass gets carried downstairs because it goes in the recycling. I don't line my bathroom bin because I'm trying to reduce consumption of single use plastics, and the bin has a plastic inner bin that gets washed out if it gets grotty.

But then no-one in this house is incontinent or menstruating. I may start leaving a few nappy sacks (used as poo bags) in the bathroom for guests who may be using sanpro though.

Thank fuck I don’t have friends who are binless

(though I did have a friend who shouted at me for putting my Coke can in a rubbish bin when out and about instead of taking it home and recycling)