Not having a bathroom bin sends the message that period are somehow disgusting!! Neer read such rot. I started my periods 60 years ago, we never had a bathroom or kitchen bin for that matter. They were wrapped in newspaper and taken outsde to be burnt. At school you had to walk from the toilets to the end of the building, and put them in an incinerator, and they were huge in thoses days, Dr Whites, didn't even come with loops, you had to form your own.My youngest DS came to me with a tampon age 2, asked what it was, I told him, no fuss, no embarassment. Am assuming these folk who keep them on hand in a nice basket, out on the bathroom supply every size and thickness then!
@nannybeach, my mum went to a boarding school in the 1940s where the girls had to wash their own cloth napkins in a cold washhouse. They were forbidden from talking to each other about periods. She most definitely got the message that periods were disgusting. For that reason there was never a bathroom bin in my home growing up, and because of that I decided I would always have one and would also keep a supply of tampons and pads in a handy spot in the bathroom, and tell all female guests to help themselves. I keep tampons in a selection of sizes, a box of panty liners, and a bag of pads in size regular. I have four DDs and their friends were always in and out of the house. I have friends coming and going too.
In secondary school (Ireland in the late 70s/early 80s) we had little bins in each stall in the girls bathrooms, just as in any public loo. This saved time of course, and also saved all that TP advised for wrapping. It also meant that girls could get on with their lives and not lose instruction time traipsing around the school to dispose of sanpro, something the boys obv didn't have to do. There were also pad and tampon dispensers in the girls loo. In my primary school the nuns didn't provide bins until some parents raised a stink. It hadn't occurred to them that girls aged up to 12 might need to dispose of sanpro.