DH throwing dead mice in our outside bin

[Frenchtrench]

Without bagging them. AIBU to think that this is grim? We have a bit of an issue with them, so it's happened more than once.

My cats kill things on occasion. Sometimes I will toss it into shrubbery in the garden or I will gather it up with some kitchen roll and put it in the bin that's soonest to be collected. I suppose a bag would be better but when its 6am and I've almost trod on a mouse carcass, I just go with what's quickest to get it out my face so I can make my coffee.

Just toss 'em in. They go pretty rigid quickly and the bin will probably be collected before they start to decompose much. In hot weather I'd cover them up, pasta sauce jars are usually a good way to keep them secure.

Nope I pick up traps with little looking as possible and then flick them into outside bit. Bllllleeeeerrgghh

Why is it grim? Once the lid is closed there’s no problem is there?

I put in a dog poo bag first. My bins are only collected every 3 weeks

My bin only gets collected every two weeks, so it depends on what counts as 'fast'.

What do you want him to do? Use plastic and send it to landfill? A dead mouse is nicely bio-degradable once it reaches landfill. Just chuck it in.

Hmm, OK, it might smell over 2 weeks. Have you got a compost heap?

Because the idea of having it decomposing in my bin for two weeks is gross.

Yuk. I wouldn't like that either. Definitely have to double bag it.

DH put a massive rat in ours once. Massive. I made him fish it out and bag it up!

Bury it in the garden. Read a few prayers over the grave and have some sausage rolls and a sherry afterwards. If you really care you'll make a little suit for it to be buried in.

(Fwiw I really would bury it or lob it under a bush, but depends on your garden situation.)

There’s a time laps of a decomposing mouse on YouTube. Day 14 it still looked fairly intact.
Deal with them yourself if you’re that bothered?

I empty mouse traps into a dog poo bag then chuck it into the wheelie bin (emptied fortnightly round my way). I've always got a poo bag in my pocket though, so whenever I go into the garage (where the little buggers are), I'm always prepared with a bag if I've caught anything. I'm not sure I'd want to put it straight into the wheelie bin. I did that once with a dead bird and ended up with maggots at the bottom of the bin!

I either Chuck them in garden waste bin on general waste but it depends which one is being collected first

If you really care you'll make a little suit for it to be buried in.

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Put it in your neighbours bin.
Problem solved.

Throw it into the shrubbery. It will decompose. If you've poisoned it then don't do that. Throw it in the bin
This place is like a convention of nervous maiden aunts from bad Victorian novellas

Our bins are collected weekly . I’ve no qualms about putting the odd dead mouse or pigeon the cats might gift me in it .

Why put extra plastic into landfill by bagging up a single mouse? 2 weeks in an outside bin isn't going to affect you or your bin in any way.

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Just toss 'em in. They go pretty rigid quickly and the bin will probably be collected before they start to decompose much. In hot weather I'd cover them up, pasta sauce jars are usually a good way to keep them secure.

Do they not have glass recycling where you live?

And if you do get maggots, they will turn into flies... and fly away... because it is an outside bin.

They just get lobbed in the hedgerow here to decompose or be eaten as nature intended. Mine are cat murders though, not poisoned.

Wrapped in kitchen roll and thrown in the main bin outside.

How does he pick it up without a bag? I pick them up like I would dog poo with a bag.