Taking rubbish to a household waste/recycling centre

[sarah00001]

Hi, I've been clearing out the spare room and nearly every day this week I've been taking stuff to my local household waste/recycling centre. It might sound silly, but does anyone know if it's ok to be doing this while pregnant? I suppose I'm thinking that people could theoretically dump anything there, as the bags don't get checked, and that I could be breathing in something harmful in the air. I'm pretty sure it must be ok, as it's outside and I'm not getting close to any waste (the men who work there always take my bags off me) but I still have a niggling worry at the back of my mind. #

Thanks

Dunno but I've been a few times and apart from the stench making me want to vomit, I haven't given it a second thought.

Thanks for your reply. Hopefully it will be ok.

My husband works in a recycling centre he stinks but I don't think the smells are harmful. Some parts of his job they are given masks but not for outdoor work so think it's safe for pregnant women.

Thank you. I suppose I've also been worried because of the contact I had with one of the men who worked there. One one occasion, he took the bags out of my car and on another he took them out my hands. He had very dirty gloves on and it's worried me that he may have touched the car seat with them or may have touched my coat when he took the bags out my hands. I know there's nothing I can do about it now, but I think its the fact I don't know what might have been on the gloves which is upsetting me.

If you're worried keep some hand sanitiser in the car and give a quick squirt to wash your hands before setting off home. Tbh yes people dump all sorts but you're probably no more at risk there than you are in the street where there are fumes from cars, dry cleaners, other machinery plus all manner of muck on the streets. Do you know if you touch the hand of the woman in sainsburys giving you your change that she washed her hands after going to the toilet? Do you know how many thousands of hands will have touched the coins she's just given you and how much bacteria is on them? As long as your hand hygiene is good and you're washing your hands before eating or preparing food that is the best you can do.
And having been also clearing out a lot of junk recently, I can say you need to be more careful about all the lifting/twisting/moving things because your joints are looser so you can't do as much as you used to (immensely frustrating for me and means I'm driving my DH potty with my directions of what he has to do!!!)