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?

oh and I must stress that if we lived somewhere where bins were few and far between and it involved a special trip to get to them, then it simply wouldn't have occurred to me. It's only because we're bang in the middle of a city where there are 47 bins per square inch that it crossed my mind and thought what a brilliant idea.

I do however stand corrected and feel informed on the matter, much to my dismay relief.

rofl at this thread!

i just cannot imagine.

none of our dc eat fresh fruit and veg-thats why its so much easier for us.

I have no idea why mine do - it doesn't appear to be the natural thing to do at all.

biscuitstuffer so use a butter knife!

iwalktheline, my cloth nappies are fine overnight, we use a terry folded to a pad in a stuffable/pocket nappy, a slinki minki for night times, we used bumgenius during the day.

biscuitstuffer i do agree actually
my ds was the same and it was hideous as we used a laundry service for our cloth nappies and the poo was always impossible to remove before putting out for laundry

GreenMonkies - Thanks, I'm sure that if I boost them enough that they would be fine but even with a fleece liner she gets a sore bum in a washable overnight so its disposables for us. In the day is fine as she is never in them for long before the next nappy change. The disposables just keep her skin dryer overnight than the washables do.

You can get flushable "paper" liners if the idea of having to scrape poo offends you! I found poo came off fleece liners easily enough, when they were exclusively bf I sometimes used to dip the liner in the loo if there was a lot of poo, but generally it still came off easily with a shake and a stretch, the moisture gets absorbed into the cloth and the poo becomes less fluid, so comes off easier than you'd expect.

Seriously, switch to cloth, it's by no means as stressful as you'd think, and certainly not as much hassle as making several trips outside to sneak poopy disposables into litter bins!!

Ah but that's the point - I'm not sneaking outside to make special trips to the bins - I'm out several times a day and pass several million of them on my travels.

I am so alarmed at the cloth idea - this is the image I have in my mind:

Piles of terry towelling and snap on covers and liners and gloves (for me) and laundry bins and sterilising solution/tablets and poo in my washing machine and extra terry towelling to stuff in pockets and laundry men coming and buckets of soaking nappies and lots of washing and drying and tipping down the loo.

It sounds like a full time job!

Terrifying

sorry if tmi, but with paper liners and runny poo the poo can tend to squidge out the sides

in general though op i would agree cloth nappies are a great thing and better than all this furtive bin filling

Oh there was no furtiveness involved. Sometimes there was even a loud accompanying exclamation of 'there go the poo bags' to DD.

cloth nappies arent at all like that any more.we did cows milk intolerants ds -so stupidly horrid poo constantly before diagnosed(about 6 months) in cloth.

Biscuitstuffer I'm sorry but I really do think you're bonkers and I think the refusal to live with your own waste probably reveals a lot more about you than you might be comfortable with...

I hate putting dirty nappies into landfill, so I throw them into the open fire at home where they completely disintigrate into ash - it's a great feeling.
I used terry nappies on my first 2 children to avoid any of this, but couldn't be bothered when no.3 came along.
YANBU, it makes no odds where you throw your nappies - they all end up in the same place. Though I know of a guy that was fined for throwing houehold rubbish into a street bin.

I'm no expert but it does sound like either lack of knowledge or OCD. Poo never went anywhere near my washing machine or the nappy bin. Didn't occur to me to ban ds from eating fruit and veg either. Very very odd.

YABU. Why not use you own bin?

MollieO...

How odd - why does anything I've described sound like OCD or that I'm considering reducing the fruit and veg that my kids eat??

To summarise:

1. It occurs to me that it may be unreasonable to be throwing our nappies in the public bins, so I ask on here. NB it is my location that instigated and facilitated this, it wouldn't have occured to me otherwise. Because this seemingly inspired option existed, I used it.

1. You all say I shouldn't do it and explain why. I agree and say ok then. I also think that the contents of all bins goes to landfill (domestic and public) so the only reason to stop (on the basis that I use disposables) is increasing antisocial smells in hot weather, plus it appears to be illegal which I didn't know.

1. I say that I can't imagine how I could actually separate the poo from a disposable as my kids don't produce rabbit droppings that just fall out when you open it up. Probably due to the amount of fruit and veg that they eat....but maybe not.

1. I describe my perception of how it is with cloth nappies - totally misguided i accept, because I have never used them.

How can that possibly be odd?

i think to ask a question and recognise and accep that yabu is very brave. well done.

fwiw, you wouldnt catch me scraping baby shit off a dsposble nappy into the toilet.

YANBU okay maybe just a little bit, but if you are so am I!!!

My DS is almost 3YO and no where near ready to potty train he is having none of it, as it stands we go through about 4 nappies a day average, so that's 56 nappies in my bin by the time it gets collected every fortnight which probably gathers up enough toxic fumes in itself to be damaging to the enviroment as well as taking up most of my bin.

I know cloth for people who don't like landfill etc but my DS has severe eczema and there are literally only 2 brands of nappies which we can use that don't break him out so cloth defo out the window!

But anyway if you use a public bin to dispose of your nappies daily then surely in a way it's helping the enviroment a bit by reducing the fumes from them stenching my bin out? I could be wrong but that's just my thoughts.

As for it being illegal, well DP used to be that guy you see wondering about the streets emptying bins and clearing streets, there are people who use the bins all the time in the town centre people used to come out with their litt;le waste basket bags like a carrier bag full of crap basically and chuck it in the bin before DP emptied it and one of the men who did it was a DI with the local police

So would'nt worry too much about that, just drop one or 2 in a bin so to be inconspiculous (sp?)

Cloth nappies are so much easier than you think. Why not get some second-hand to try. Many for sale on the boards here. Go on, give them a go.... you know you want to..

You could use a flushable liner in a disposable nappy, if you really couldn't go over to cloth. Then the whole thing comes out of the nappy when you come to tip into the loo.

"if you use a public bin to dispose of your nappies daily then surely in a way it's helping the enviroment a bit by reducing the fumes from them stenching my bin out?"

what on earth does this mean??

boak at the thought of shitty nappy wrapped in a plastic bag v. my cloth ones pegged out on the line in the sun this afternoon, all fresh.