Throwing tissues away when you have covid

[worriedatthemoment]

Just realised dh has emptied the bathroom bin with positive lateral flow test in and a few tissues ( he never empties the bin) and placed in outside wheelie bin.
I had read about keeping for 72 hrs so ds has bag in his room for tissues since positive test
It was only about 30 hrs in house though
It was bagged and then bagged again in black bin bag
Bin not diue to be collected ifor another 2 weeks and bin isn't accessible by animals or other people, should i go and retrieve the bag or will it be ok as its not going anywhere for a few weeks anyway?
Dh had no idea of this and I forgot to mentiion

If nobody is going to go near it for 2 weeks why would you considering retrieving it? It’s not radioactive. I’d leave it were it is.

Well thats what I thought made me wonder why it has to be kept in house for 72 hrs if no where near bin day ?
We have created a second bin for his tissues etc now which we will leave for 3 days before disposing .

Who do you think is going to catch covid from a double bagged tissue in your own wheelie bin...,??? Even if it was due to be emptied tomorrow, unless the scaffies are rooting through your bin and eating the rubbish then it's highly unlikely this will cause any one any harm. This is as mad as when everyone was bleaching their shopping last year 🤯🤯🤯

Covid waste is fine being in an outside bin for two weeks.... Why would even think of retrieving it?

I’m not sure we’re you’ve seen this guidance, but you can obviously just use your common sense. It’s in your bin on your property, bagged up, nobody is going near it for weeks, how is that not keeping it for 3 days? It’s great that you are considerate but I think this is way OTT. I hope everyone gets well soon anyway

If the bin isn't accessible by people or animals, why do you worry so much?

I think you are overreacting.

Its the guidelines to keep it for 72 hrs nit my own personal choice
Its a lidded wheelie bin so not accessible at all to any animals and only my neighbour could access but they have covid anyway and have no reason to open my bin

Are you being serious? I don’t mean to sound snide, I’m genuinely not sure because considering retrieving these is such a bizarre idea.
Some double bagged tissues in a wheelie bin? It’s fine.

It will be fine

@WorriedGiraffe just seen it in nhs site and my local council .
Yes overreacting as its a bin that is for our sole use and we are only collected 3 weekly here and just collected a couple days ago
Just reading all the isolation cleaning advice etc and Cane across this again
Not sure I can even keep uo with all the cleaning tbh we have no choice but to share a bathroom, trying to stop the rest of us catching it also

Well thats what I thought made me wonder why it has to be kept in house for 72 hrs if no where near bin day ?

Probably because it's easier than saying "unless your bin isn't going to be collected for more than 72 hours." And they're guidelines, not The Law.

But i kind of think it may be a lost cause as think we will catch at some time anyway but I start a new job in 12 days !!! Don't want yo be off sick straight away

@Reallybadidea yes that makes sense or i suppose many have communal bins or just black bags placed loose where animals can get at

I think wether your bagged rubbish lives inside or outside is irrelevant to wether or not you will catch covid, but it’s already outside so retrieving it obviously puts you at greater risk (and is daft).

Microban do a spray that lasts on surfaces after cleaning, so when surfaces are retouched it instantly kills viruses for 24 hours or something without needing reapplying, maybe something like that would help for a shared bathroom? And windows open etc. You can get it on Amazon I think.

This is insane.

@WorriedGiraffe ok haven't heard of that , will maybe take a look , I just told him to use a wioe or spray the tap and flush and door handle as thats all we will touch I would think.
I think the bath / shower your washing in anyway so just doing normal couple day clean or wipe of obvious
The thing is if your contagious before you know your already exposed anyway i guess.

@WorriedGiraffe I wasn't worried about myself getting from the bin just was there some reason why it says inside as opposed to out if not being emptied
I likely won't even go to the bin for another few days anyway as we recycle most things

I'v seen this advice for our local tip, it's incase staff have to step in and touch the waste for some reason. After 72hours the virus will be dead. It's going to sit in your bin for 2 weeks so is absolutely fine. You don't need a second bin, everything can go straight outside if you want.

@bungalowrose just giving him a small second bin for now so he puts it somewhere other than the windowsill, bedside table , floor etc and telling him it has to go in there for covid . Already he thinks im room service

The only kind &clean thing I would suggest is that you wipe the handles & lids of your bin with antiseptic/disinfectant
That is what the bin workers touch & you/your husband will probably touch just before

[quote worriedatthemoment]@WorriedGiraffe just seen it in nhs site and my local council .
Yes overreacting as its a bin that is for our sole use and we are only collected 3 weekly here and just collected a couple days ago
Just reading all the isolation cleaning advice etc and Cane across this again
Not sure I can even keep uo with all the cleaning tbh we have no choice but to share a bathroom, trying to stop the rest of us catching it also [/quote]
Adult ds had it and we shared a bathroom and DH and I didn't get it. The most important thing is to air the space,so windows left cracked open. ds isolated in his room but we ate together in the garden.

Wrt cleaning, I just cleaned as normal .

@worriedatthemoment

But i kind of think it may be a lost cause as think we will catch at some time anyway but I start a new job in 12 days !!! Don't want yo be off sick straight away

Not necessarily, I've got covid at the moment, boyfriend is negative we've shared a bed, bathroom, kitchen etc. it's not a given you'll catch it.

Why would anyone be going in your bin to get used tissues out, covid or no covid?

@ThePoisonousMushroom

This is insane.

Yep.