is this unreasonable?

[narkymum]

I offer a discount to parents that are willing to send their child in washable nappies, my local council are now talking about fortnightly rubbish pickups I recycle everything poss and my own ds wears washables I have noticed that my main rubbish seems to be mindees nappies would i be out of order to bag them and send them home because i dont want other peoples smelly nappies in my bin for two weeks

I don't think a parent would be too happy having to take a whole bag of used nappies home, in the car, at the end of the day! Canyou imagine the stench, if its been a particularly bad day!

can you dispose of most of the poo down the loo before you bag them? i would be very cross if my CM gave me DDs soiled nappies back at the end of the day.

beleive me, if you are going to fortnightly collections, you will be making tip runs anyway.. it is a disaster !

YABabitU. You could perhaps negotiate with parents re mindees wearing washables when you are minding them if it bugs you that much (after all, the parents probably won't mind if it's not them that has to wash the washables) but sending a child home with literally a sack of sh*t is a bit excessive.

ring the council rubbish dept - there should be a number for a named contact on the literature they sent about the fortnightly change - and tell them you are a cm, that you do what you can (offering washable discount) but that you cant force people to use them and thus you will be requiring a bigger/an extra black bin.

i would empty first but would really like to move over to washables and i would not be prepared to wash them one of my mindees brings a bucket and i empty the poo and pop them in for her to take home this works really well its not hard

Yeah, but you can't empty a wet nappy and they can smell pretty vile at times.

I never complained when my children's nurseries sent them home with bags of shit (ie. the cloth nappies I sent in with them) so why could it not work the other way?

I wouldn't have stinknig chemical impregnated nappies of other children in my bin for weeks,no bloody way!!

Well, if you can get them all to agree, then great. I do understand that 2 weeks worth of nappies, from several children is going to be pretty gross. come the summer time. I was just trying to get you to think about the comments you may get from parents.

Maybe a middle ground? If they are particularly nasty, you'll put them in your bin? Afterall, you're a CM and it does come with the territory.

Y A B U - sorry but you are.

Would be unhappy to get a laod of nappies at end of day.

I know quite a few childminders and Pre-schools who send nappies home with parents, all bagged up. I cant see the problem.

FWIW we have 2 weekly collections and couldnt imagine who we would cope with 1 little wheelie bin for 2 whole weeks. (we are a family of 6) Today was bin collection day and it went out with space for atleast another bin bag. We tend to recyle a little bit more.

Our council sells carbon filters that fit in the lid of the bin to help eliminate nasty niffs, I haven't actually used it myself as my council reverts back to weekly collections during the summer months. Does yours do something similar?

I don't think you'd really be sending sack loads home at the end of the day would you? I personally don't think its a problem. Its your business and you are entitled to run it how you want.

the bin is outdoors, right?
not actually in your living room...

mind you, dustys right; your business, run it the way you want to.

my dd went to nursery in washables- they tipped the liner down the loo, and sent the nappy home in a washable wet nappy bag. Not a problem at all- max 6 nappies a day; far fewer as she got older.

How about putting disposable liners in the nappy as it goes on, disposing of the poo down the loo, then sending home the wet nappy?

Surely all parents in your area will be in the same boat re: the bins, so will understand?

One of the main reasons I swapped over to washables was the stench and the pile of dirty nappies in the bin waiting for the bin man; this was in winter and on weekly collections, too!

You could perhaps do the following

a) discount for those who use and wash their own washable nappies
b) no change in charges for those using washables and you launder them (I had 2 in cloth and didn't find it a big deal tbh)
c) offer hardened disposable users either to get their dc own used dis nappies at the end of the day or pay a disposing charge.

Food for thought????

Def easier to implement on new starters than established mindees but you could notify everyone that it will start in x months time to give them option to trial washables and hopefully conver?

I must admit it's a very unsavory part of the job, but my existing parents would NOT go for this at all. I do have weekly collections, but it wouldn't be the end of the world if it went to bi-weekly as we are very good at recycling.

Anyway, car girl has given some very good suggestions, and you are certainly entitled to run your biz however you'd like!

Good luck with whatever you decide.

I already offer discount for washable wearers i may possibly ask parent what they prefer taking home their disposables or paying a little extra for me to use washables and then may arrange for nappy laundry service to collect. my problem is not so much having mindees nappies in my bin but the fact that i fill guilty looking at all that land fill