Difference of opinion re bathroom waste recycling. What's yours?

jjblondie

I go through the bathroom, kitchen and bedroom ones if I see anything obviously recyclable not covered in food/slime . I really hate waste and, whilst they are much better trained than they were, OH and his housemate still don't always think to recycle even when there is a recycling bin next to the main one.

onlyroz

Bathroom recyclables (empty bottles and loo-rolls) tend to get perched on the bathroom shelf until somebody can be bothered to take them downstairs to the main recycle bin. I don't like to get too close to the contents of the bathroom bin - that's emptied weekly with a peg firmly placed on the nose before venturing too close...

onlyroz

pinkladyof66 wrote: »

i am somewhat surprised in this day and age nothing has been sorted for menstral waste.

There has. It's called a mooncup.

andrealm

From other threads, it seems a lot of people do just flush them. I was always taught to bin them though and I'd have been mortified if my dad had started going through the bin:eek: although tbh I think he'd have been so horrified to find them there he'd never have done it again.:D

Millie2008_2

We tend to leave anything obviously recyclable to one side, but occasionally, bits end up in the bathroom bin that should be in the recycling. I don't have a problem going through it, but then there is only OH and I and I have never found anything horrendous in there. I can however see how your daughter might feel uncomfortable, OP and I think that your compromise is a fab suggestion

As for the sanitary items ending up in the sewage system- I have seen this first hand on a visit to a sewage works (not by choice I might add!!) and what they filter out only ends up in landfill anyhow, so it is pointless flushing down the loo!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

The upstairs bathroom is too small to have a bin. Seriously, if I got a tiny bin, you would have to step over it to get to the toilet or use the sink.

Downstairs, it's only a short walk to the kitchen bin. So the small bin beside the loo generally gets ignored.


The rules are, come rain, come shine, once you have finished with a sanitary product, you wrap it in the wrapper the new one came in and put it deep into the kitchen bin to be put out by 10pm every night without fail. I am not going on a menstrual waste hunt throughout the house.

Loo roll inners and empty bottles also get removed from the room immediately and placed in the right bin. After all, you're not spending the entire day in the bathroom, you have to go downstairs sooner or later.



DD has no embarrassment regarding menstruation in itself. Probably due to my working in gynae for years. I will admit that I wasn't expecting when I asked if she was particularly heavy seven days into her first ever period, for her to hold out the replaced item for me to see the amount.

But even so, she didn't want to tell her father; so I suggested she asked her SM what she should do with sanitary towels in a house with two males - her father, plus the tactless teenage stepbrother. Had there been a prospect of her father going through the bin and commenting upon it, I daresay she would have put them all in her backpack and brought them back home for disposal three days later. _pale_

Saturnalia

onlyroz wrote: »

There has. It's called a mooncup.

It's said that Mooncup contents make excellent plant food. I'll take their word for it though, I've never ever fancied putting it to the test! :eek:

In this house, any bottles & packaging is put straight in the recycling box, loo roll tubes are given to the cats as they love to destroy them, then recycled. Anything that goes in the bin is stuff that can't be recycled.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Saturnalia wrote: »

It's said that Mooncup contents make excellent plant food. I'll take their word for it though, I've never ever fancied putting it to the test! :eek:

In this house, any bottles & packaging is put straight in the recycling box, loo roll tubes are given to the cats as they love to destroy them, then recycled. Anything that goes in the bin is stuff that can't be recycled.

I would be far too paranoid about the idiot cat investigating the plant pots. The cat with the white nose. _pale_

Bronnie

No I would not expect anyone to rummage through my bathroom bin. Nor am I particularly precious about what goes in there. The bin is emptied regularly and not a health hazard!

Amidst all this talk of rummaging through bathrooms bins, can I just ask out of curiosity how people dispose of used condoms?

peaceandfreedom

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

The rules are, come rain, come shine, once you have finished with a sanitary product, you wrap it in the wrapper the new one came in and put it deep into the kitchen bin to be put out by 10pm every night without fail.

See, I find the idea of putting menstrual waste in the kitchen bin a bit nauseating. Likewise babies' nappies - anything that emerges from one's nether regions has no place in the kitchen bin, no matter how frequently it is emptied.

My girls have been taught to wrap up their menstrual waste in loo paper/wrapping of new towel and put it in the bathroom bin, which is emptied most days. The idea of them having to physically carry stuff to the outdoor bin every time is ridiculous.

It's quite awkward for guests if there is no bin in the bathroom, given that this is the usual place one would dispose of menstrual waste. I would be mortified if my guests had to secrete items about their person until they had access to a bin.