To throw ALL our dirty nappies (in bags) in public bins on a daily basis?

[BiscuitStuffer]

Rather than chuck them in our normal bin at home?

Get yourself some cloth nappies. Seriously, I used to think people that used them were nuts, until I tried it. I too had a newborn and a 2 yr old, and it really genuinely was manageable.

As others have said, poo sould always go down the loo regardless.

Yes. YABU. My tax money pays for those bins to be emptied.

Sorry but get cloth or live with your refuse. Ooooooooor, see if your local tip/tip takes household rubbish....?

Can you not just get a bin with bin bag in a keep it somewhere in your house/yard/bathroom?

As already said, use cloth. And use fleece liners - one nifty shake and it all falls off (or you could try the 'stretch manouevre' (basically involves pulling the fleece from each end to stretch it) for squidgy poos. And a bit of sluicing for the most stubborn remains. Even my dh managed.

I dread to think what your local streets must smell like in summer.

AYe, terry nappies bout a quid each, liners that go in bin [second the 'stretch technique].

Lady in town asked what I was doing when I put dirty nappy in change bag [wrapped up of course..] and I said I didn;t even know where the bin was in this changing room...

YABU why not consider using real nappies?? I try my best to use them with my DC when weather is good, so they dry fast. Just flick the poo into the toilet. Easy. Job done. No stinky nappy. Easy peasy!

My friend is a nurse. She taught me a way of tying bags so no smell escapes. I think it was called a swan tie or something. Can't find it on Youtube.

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

My mum takes her rubbish from her room out when she stays with us and puts it into a public bin. I have no idea why - I think she doesn't want to cost us money in bin bags. Now we have a shiny new wheelie bin maybe she will stop this random behaviour.

Have you got a back yard? Most people would go and get a bin, put it in the back yard, put a black sack in it and put their rubbish out into it on a daily basis. I have got one. It came from a skip, but you can buy metal ones from hardware shops, about 15 quid I think.

That stops your house being smelly.

I have rarely tipped small toddler or baby poo into a toilet from a disposable nappy...it's pointless and ineffective, most of it will stick to the nappy anyway. Larger toddler yes.

Also the big industrial bins are all different, some are just fro recycling, so make sure you are getting the right ones iyswim.

Is this a wind up?

Yes, YABU, use cloth, then you won't be filling landfill with non-biodegradable packets of untreated human sewage, irrespective of which bin you put them in.

God I never thought of that...It sounds a bit odd but can understand it.. I hav twins so go through about 12 nappies a day. The bins only come once a fortnight and it is always bulging due to all the extra nappy bulk. So although odd I can see why it seems like a good idea as I always get dodgy looks off the neighbours for my bin overflowing

I got the idea of someone else who does it

Reading some of the posts from the beginning o this thread it looks like people are suggesting that disposable nappies should be rinsed out or poo removed from them before they are binned. Really??? Do people actually do that? I'm intrigued, I've changed many a nappy myself and have seen countless people change nappies and I have never seen/heard about anyone who does that.
I use cloth nappies (though with disposables overnight) so I always rinse them before they are washed but would never do that with a disposable. Very curious.

My friend empties the poo out of disposables, her parents told her to do it and so I always thought it was a hangover from cloth nappies. I'm surprised other people on here do it and was wondering if it is quite common too!

In Australia you have to tip the poo down the loo apparantly.

I didn't empty poo from disposable nappies as it didn't occur to me . I think from a sanitary pov it is probably better that poo goes into the sewers where it can be treated appropriately than landfill.

'Tis technically illegal to put any human waste product in landfill. If you must use disposables at least flush first...

cargirl - thats right, its to do with concern over the possibility of it leaching into the watertable and their low rate of infant vaccinations resulting in spread of disease. It is illegal to put the poo in the bin. However, that being said very few people adhere to the law, particularly in the rural areas where many houses still collect rainwater to drink and cook with and use bore water/riverwater for gardens and sewage as they need to limit how often they flush the toilet (half my family are Ozzie). Plus, even in the cities households pay for every drop of water they use so even they don't want to flush the loo more than necessary.
I really didn't think anyone did it here though.

But not all poo will go down the loo - especially not new born or breast fed only poo.

A bit odd imo. Why don't you use reuseable nappies if disposing of disposable ones is such a problem? I hated the thought of my bin being full of smelly nappies so chose to do washable ones instead.

In my area they are now only emptying bins fortnightly, so I imagine there will be more peple shoving nappies into doggy poo bins over the summer.

YABU!!!!

you shouldn't be putting household waste in public bins.

If you have OCD then at least find a clinical waste bin at Mothercare or somewhere.

Or see a shrink?

Or use reusables?

MollieO - I agree which is why I use cloth nappies, though overnight they just don't cut it so I use one disposable a day, which isn't ideal but is better than nothing.
I just never thought anyone washed out disposable nappies. By the time you've done that you might as well have put them in the washing machine. Anyway, even if you wash some of the poo off, they'd still be full of wee wouldn't they??
Sorry for the hijack.

Lord help us all - I know this will be no surprise to any of you but I really don't think that I would manage to flush a single poo down the loo. My kids eat lots of fresh fruit and veg and the nappy and the poo are fairly integral by the time I've mangaged to pin them down sussed that they need a nappy change. I would need a butter knife to scrape it off.