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would you leave dirty nappies in a library?

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starlover · 30/03/2006 19:02

kind of following on from the restaurant thread!

My mum works in our local library and they have a baby jiggle and rhyme time on a friday morning.

Due to persistent requests they got a changing mat so that babies could be changed if necessary and people have now started LEAVING their dirty nappies beside it! for library staff to remove and bin....

I was Shock when I heard it

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paolosgirl · 30/03/2006 23:14

I'm not seeing the connection between a sanitary bin that has to be provided by law, and people using the jiggle time who decide to leave their nappies for the staff to clean up.

If you're using that analogy, would you leave your towel on the floor for thme to clean up?

Caligula · 30/03/2006 23:15

No of course not I'd leave it in the bin provided. And I don't really see what's so difficult and expensive about leaving a nappy bin.

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Caligula · 30/03/2006 23:17

Sorry, are we talking millions and millions of pounds for a nappy bin? The ones they have in mothercare are crappy plastic and don't appear to have any technologically fabulous innovations which would lead to them costing the book budget of a local library. And they smell. Are they really so expensive?

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starlover · 30/03/2006 23:17

that's already been explained caligula! have you read the whole thread?

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paolosgirl · 30/03/2006 23:19

Well, in this case, like it or not, there isn't a nappy bin. There are all things we'd like in an ideal world, but unfortunately, on occasions such as this, the decent polite thing to do would be to clean up after your child and take it home or put it in the next nappy bin you do see.

expatinscotland · 30/03/2006 23:21

i still can't imagine leaving a dirty nappy about and assuming someone will clean it up. that's so foul it beggars belief - like taking a dump on the floor in some bog roll and leaving it there.

boak.

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starlover · 30/03/2006 23:21

well said paolosgirl!

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Caligula · 30/03/2006 23:22

Yes but I haven't been convinced by it. Someone said that the place would stink because binmen would only come once a week, but surely it's not that difficult to tie up a bin bag and take it outside a couple of times a day? Although I expect it wouldn't fit someone's job description, so they would have to employ someone to do it especially. And how comes they can dispose of sanitary towels and tampons?

I really don't think it's beyond the wit of most people to come up with a place where mothers can dump their dirty nappies without it being a health hazard. If they can do it for other waste, they can do it for this.

Of course, if everyone used washables, the question wouldn't arise. Wink

paolosgirl · 30/03/2006 23:22

Thanks Starlover. Can you tell I'm a Library Services Manager?!

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starlover · 30/03/2006 23:23

because IT HAS TO BE EMPTIED BY THE SANITARY WASTE DISPOSAL PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!

for the millionth time. it ISN'T normal rubbish! it has to be taken, AT COST, by the same kind of company that do sanitary bins.

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paolosgirl · 30/03/2006 23:24

Caligula - how do you think they dipose of sanitary towels? It's not in the bin bags, you know! Have you never seen Initial Hygiene Services vans and wondered just exactly what they do?

Caligula · 30/03/2006 23:25

So why can't they do it at the same time? And why are we all so happy about the costs to library users of sanitary towel disposal? Why don't you all take your sanitary towels home, or change to mooncups?

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starlover · 30/03/2006 23:26

also, as I said earlier... these people can't be bothered to put a nappy sack in their bag.

do you really think they would be bothered to go to the front desk, get the key, go to the toilets and put the nappy in the bin?

they can't even be arsed to pick it up off the flood fgs!

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expatinscotland · 30/03/2006 23:26

b/c many libraries don't offer toilet facilities at all.

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starlover · 30/03/2006 23:26

lol caligula you're missing the point

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oops · 30/03/2006 23:28

I suppose my issues are the total lack of facilities in my library--- no mat, nada

agree with caligula too
i can't really see how a simple nappy bin is the thin end of the wedge for some of you.. and as a mother of a clothie baby and a disp toddler i do carry some pooey nappies round with me.
i just think it is a good thing to provide to put dirty nappies in... so the staff won't have to clear up.
yes, people should take nappies home, but the pragmatic approach is to hekp the workers by peoving a bin.

maybe this is another thread, but where do you feed/change your baby when out and about if you can;t afford the cafe that has changing facilities?

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starlover · 30/03/2006 23:29

i take lunch for ds when we go out.

i change him in mothercare, or the baby changing room in our mall

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starlover · 30/03/2006 23:29

i feed him wherever I have lunch, or if I am not eating we'll sit down on a seat in the mall, or in the park

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paolosgirl · 30/03/2006 23:29

Mmmm, now that's a thought. Lets question the need for a santitary facility that 50% of the population need. Actually, women:men ratio in libraries is far higher, so it's more than 50%. LOL!!!

paolosgirl · 30/03/2006 23:30

Oops - see my earlier thread about ideal worlds v. reality!

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starlover · 30/03/2006 23:30

also, people with babies don't have to come to the library if they don't like the facilities.

the women who work there can't take time off every time they hae their period!

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expatinscotland · 30/03/2006 23:31

DH is stuffed, b/c he stays home w/the girls during the day, and there are few to no changing facilities in mens rooms. So he has to go places where he knows they have a baby changing room Sad. He did like that about the US: gender neutral changing rooms abound - a product of a litigous culture and the resulting gender-equality legislation.

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