to ask...where do you put your used tampons at home?

[YellowCat3]

Okay, I'll fess up...for years I've flushed them [blush. I've never thought too much about the enivronmental impact as I thought it was the same as loo roll, but have recently become aware that I definitely need to stop.

But I don't like the thought of them lingering around the house. We don't have a bin in the bathroom as it seems disgusting somehow, and our only bin is in the kitchen. It seems beyond skanky to put soiled tampons in there. I just wondered what other women do - do you put them straight in the bins outside, or are you happy to have bloody tampons in the bins inside for days? Not sure if I am being OCD about this (probably), but feel puzzled as to the best way to dispose of them?

I put them in plastic bags I’ve saved from other things and bin when full.

DD does the same

I don't use tampons anymore, when I did I would wrap them in tissue and put them in the bin. It's only blood after all.

Honestly....I flush them....toilet brushes and bathroom bins are banned in our house. Yak.

Honestly....I flush them....toilet brushes and bathroom bins are banned in our house. Yak

Please stop. It’s so irresponsible.

I don't have a bathroom bin and I have no idea what visitors do, we don't have many! The kitchen bin is by the bathroom door so no point in having two.

Regarding the plastic bags, I haven't bought any for years. They are going into landfill whether I use them or not so they may as well have used tampons in them! When I've used them all I'll switch to biodegradable ones.

Just wrap in toilet paper & put in bathroom bin

Wrap in loo roll and put in bathroom pedal bin which has a liner. Empty it every day.

And yes to not flushing them (people have to unclog them from sewers/water treatment pumps, none of them are suitable to flush evening they say they are, same for flushable wipes) or putting in a bag. It's a bit of blood, wrap in tissue rather than putting even more plastic in to the environment :(

Am currently at my MIL's. She doesn't have a bathroom bin. So I have to wrap used tampons in loo roll and stuff them inside dirty nappies! As for dental floss I put it in my beauty bag and when I remember discard it in the same way. In fact I just found some old, used dental floss in my bag that I forgot to chuck!

What have toilet brushes got to do with the question?

Lidded bathroom bin

What CatIBSick said. Never flush. Clogs the systems up rotten if you flush. Norty! I knew that in the 1970s.

I use a mooncup now but when I used tampons I put them in the bathroom bin (lidded and lined). I hate going to people’s houses that don’t have bathroom bins.

I wrap in tissue and chuck in the bathroom bin. You can also buy perfumed sanitary bags to put them in but I guess they are really bad for the environment too.

A few years ago, I bought and tried a mooncup and both times I tried it, it got sucked up and suctioned itself very high up near my cervix! After recovering it twice for me, my husband chucked it in the bin and banned me from using it ever again LOL LOL LOL. I don’t understand how women get on with them!?

Sirmione16 thanks for the recommendation. I've been looking for something other than Tampax for a while but so many brands don't have applicators.

Wrapped in loo roll then into bathroom bin. Then a mooncup which avoids all of that.
Please dont flush/wrap in plastic

I think most women of my age (50) flushed tampons for decades, but we all now know the importance of keeping plastics & sanitary waste out of seas / off the beaches.

I switched to Diva cup / mooncup about 3 years ago (brilliant) but on rare tampon occasions I wrap in tissue and put in bathroom bin.

Teenage daughter does the same.

Wrap in tissue, put in small lidded bathroom bin that has a pedal bin liner in it. Also where dental floss, used cotton wool ear buds, make-up remover or nail varnish used cotton wool pads goes, or the non-recyclable plastic wrappers off stuff.

Can't fathom not having one - do the rest of you walk around your house carrying manky bits of stuff to a different bin? Why is a lidded bin in the bathroom with a liner more manky than a bin anywhere else in your house?

We also have an open bin next to the lidded bin for recyclable stuff like cardboard loo roll tubes or finished plastic bottles.

Not having a bathroom bin is really weird. Used dental floss? Loo roll inners? Shampoo bottles? Used tampons/sanitary towels?

And as for no loo brush.. what would you expect a visitor to do if they made your loo dirty?

Alongside a bin, I've got a small storage basket beside the toilet.

In it are baby wipes and nappy sacks.

Wet wipes, tampons and panty liners go in a nappy sack and in the bin.

Bathroom bin. It’s only a bit of blood and cotton wool. It’s not radioactive.

Even the 100% cotton biodegradable ones shouldn't be flushed, they may biodegrade eventually but they are still likely to cause blockages as they won't break down like toilet paper when flushed.

we didnt flush in the early 1980s. how are people only now figuring this out?

I put it in one of these www.fablittlebag.com/?cn-reloaded=1 and then put it in the bathroom bin

Can't believe people flush them, Im nearly 40 and knew from about age 11 not to flush sanitary products.

Ive heard some horrible stories from wwtw workers who were tasked to clean blockages. Sanitary towels and tampons were almost always the main culprit. These workers were only paid min wage too, to unblock your fanny sponges with their hands. Please stop.