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Original poster

To think putting a nappy in this particular bin is a bit grim?

32 replies

JakeyRolling · 04/02/2022 11:47

Just been at a trampoline park with DC.

There's a fenced off area separate from the main hall with smaller trampolines for the little kids. In it is a recycling bin - it's one of the large bucket types with no lid.

Little kids being little kids they like to "post" things in the bin occasionally or thrown balls land in it.

Anyway parent of a small baby changed a wet nappy and put it in the bin without rolling it. First I knew of it was retrieving a basketball from on top of the open nappy. 🤢

Aibu to think they should have gone to the bathroom, changed the baby and put it in the bin there?

OP posts:
housemaus · 04/02/2022 11:58

You want people to stop using a bin for its intended purpose so that children can use it as a basketball hoop?

YABU.

Parents there should be teaching their kids not to put things in the bin. Trampoline park should probably get a lid on it if it's a recurring problem of balls landing in there.

ChittyBangs · 04/02/2022 12:00

It's a bin. She's using it as a bin.

Kids should not be using it as a toy/game.

The place should have a lid on it.

SartresSoul · 04/02/2022 12:01

Kids shouldn’t be playing in a dustbin, that’s probably one of the strangest things I’ve ever typed but yeah…

Looneytune253 · 04/02/2022 12:02

Well it's not as bad as the ones that change their kiddies at the table in the soft play where people are also eating. Then leave the nappy on the table with the rest of their rubbish for someone else to clean. I couldn't get worked up about a bin tbh. Unless it was an unbagged poo nappy. Depends where they physically changed the baby too. There's no excuse in places like that

Anoisagusaris · 04/02/2022 12:03

OP said it’s a recycling bin. Nappies don’t go into recycling bins. Anyway she should have put it in a nappy bag or at least folded it up, and put it in a bathroom bin.

safariboot · 04/02/2022 12:03

If it's a clearly marked recycling bin, YANBU. People have to sort the recycling; this mother is forcing them to handle a soiled nappy.

Suzi888 · 04/02/2022 12:05

@Looneytune253

Well it's not as bad as the ones that change their kiddies at the table in the soft play where people are also eating. Then leave the nappy on the table with the rest of their rubbish for someone else to clean. I couldn't get worked up about a bin tbh. Unless it was an unbagged poo nappy. Depends where they physically changed the baby too. There's no excuse in places like that
Envy that is not envy. ^GRIM!
CrinklyCraggy · 04/02/2022 12:07

Nappies don't belong in a recycling bin.

No one was "using it as a basket ball hoop". It's an open bin in a park. Occasionally balls are going to land in it.

Whatever bin it goes in, it should be folded and sealed with its tapes, surely?

Children shouldn't be deliberately putting anything but rubbish in a bin.

Looneytune253 · 04/02/2022 12:08

Yep and the staff member says it happens every day.

grey12 · 04/02/2022 12:13

@ChittyBangs

It's a bin. She's using it as a bin.

Kids should not be using it as a toy/game.

The place should have a lid on it.

OP said it was a recycling bin. So no nappies Wink
ChittyBangs · 04/02/2022 12:17

Didn't see recycling. My bad.

Still shouldn't be used as a game 🙊

grey12 · 04/02/2022 12:31

@ChittyBangs

Didn't see recycling. My bad.

Still shouldn't be used as a game 🙊

Yes 🤢 OP tell management to get a basketball hoop
YeOldePotato · 04/02/2022 12:43

Nappies should not be put in the recycling bin that is rank. They should be bagged and put in the bin that is usually in public bathrooms specifically for nappy disposal.

Children however should be being supervised and kept away from the bin. If balls land in their regularly I would suggest to management they relocate the bin.

RandomQuest · 04/02/2022 12:48

Is it clearly marked as a recycling bin? Obviously nappies don’t go in a recycling bin but on the face of it putting rubbish in a bin is more normal than using a bin as a basketball hoop. Maybe they made a mistake and thought it was a general rubbish bin. Sounds like the park needs a hoop and the bin needs a lid or to be moved - maybe you should contact the council.

TheYearOfSmallThings · 04/02/2022 12:51

That is gross and I have no idea why people are excusing it.

SleepingStandingUp · 04/02/2022 12:54

Don't put nappies in a recycling bin.

If your putting nappies in an open bin wrap them up.

Don't use the bin as a toy.

YeOldePotato · 04/02/2022 12:55

It's not hard to roll them up either

burnthur5t · 04/02/2022 13:04

A lot of people on here can't read but don't let the facts get in the way

Obviously a used nappy shouldn't be going in a recycling bin

ElftonWednesday · 04/02/2022 13:05

Perhaps she was massively sleep-deprived and didn't notice. It's hardly the worst crime in the world is it?

stuntbubbles · 04/02/2022 13:10

Little kids being little kids they like to "post" things in the bin occasionally
Is it screamingly obvious it’s a recycling bin or is it filled with a mix of things because of little kids posting stuff in it, and other people mixing it up with a bin-bin because it’s a lidless dustbin type affair? Could just be a mistake. She should have rolled it up, though. But I do give parents of small babies the benefit of the doubt, because sleeplessness fucks up your brain.

Original poster
JakeyRolling · 04/02/2022 13:10

I agree the bin needs a lid and is in the wrong place - little kids are like lightning at times or the ball does go astray.

There is a basketball hoop but it's at the other end of the room.

To have put it in this particular bin - it's the only one on the main trampoline floor, the rest are in the loos, cafe and shoe change area - the nappy would have been changed there too (probably on one of the sofas), which I also think is grim.

OP posts:
heyitsthistle · 04/02/2022 13:12

It's so easy to fold the nappy up with the straps. Bleurgh.

YeOldeTrout · 04/02/2022 13:19

Recycling bins should have lids & be separate from waste bins -- else they get full of rubbish that contaminates (ruins for recycling) any genuinely recyclable stuff. Such an obviously bad thing to put recycling bins next to rubbish bins, or have the recycling bins without lids. Argh.

TrashyPanda · 04/02/2022 15:20

@ElftonWednesday

Perhaps she was massively sleep-deprived and didn't notice. It's hardly the worst crime in the world is it?
It’s grotesque for the folk who have separate out metal, glass, paper etc. How does sleep deprivation stop you from balling up a nappy properly?
stuntbubbles · 04/02/2022 15:33

the nappy would have been changed there too (probably on one of the sofas), which I also think is grim.
Grim for a poo, doesn’t raise an eyebrow with me for a wet nappy. Every midwife I saw in the early days advised me to change DD on my knee wherever I was rather than going to find a baby change station in the loos (I wasn’t very mobile).