Going nuts ? sposie user guests putting poo in MY bin!!!

[AndiE]

I had a friend come over and she must have mistaken our recycle bin (in the kitchen) for a kitchen bin, and put her 1-year-old daughter's nappy in there. I didn't see it until after she'd left but I wasn't too impressed. Admittedly I didn't check to see if it was pooey or not (erk ...), I just put it in a nappy bag and put it in the wheelie bin. Maybe I should label our recycle bin to say as much ...

As for me, I always take my DS's dirty nappies home (nappy sacks serve a purpose!).

Andie

[aussienic]

I would say here let me take that for you I will take it outside.

[myson]

ok. so i have seen the word illegal flying around all over the place here...

if it is against the law has anyone ever been prosecuted for this? what is the charge? what is the minimum sentence for a guilty verdict? Has anyone been found guilty yet? Is there a person employed to go out to the bins of our country and check out the 'evidence'? does myson have way too much time on her hands?

[Marlene]

if it is against the law has anyone ever been prosecuted for this? what is the charge? what is the minimum sentence for a guilty verdict? Has anyone been found guilty yet? Is there a person employed to go out to the bins of our country and check out the 'evidence'?

I dont think I'll ever be that desperate for work to be the person who has to go into people wheelie bins, open nappies up and check for poo!!

[Epacris]

I just want to clarify again, I'm not asking for advice about my kitchen bin V's outside wheelie bin, I have a bin V's toilet issue with my sposie using guests. It is unacceptable to me (and illegal anyway) to put poo in any bin. I have no problem with guests putting sposies that have been weed on (or had the poo emptied out of them) in my bin/s and I totally understand that is it impractical (and impossible) to get some runny poos out of sposies.

Myson, I'm sorry I can't quote you the law exactly. I'm pretty sure it is a local government responsibility. Some local councils do undertake domestic and industrial bin audits. They look for things like, building rubble in domestic bins, plastic bags in recycling bins and pooey sposies in domestic rubbish bins. I think people get a warning and some "educational" material for a first offence, if it happens again then they get fined??? I have personally seen council offers in my area undertaking bin audits, but I think they were targeting plastic bags in the mixed recycling bins at the time, I should have asked.

[Salsa]

Arrghh - me & dh are 'anal' about nappies and changing.
We are even very particular about where we will change a nappy. We do not think its acceptable to change on a table or bench where food is prepared or eaten, but know so many people ( including family) who do this.
I can even remember being annoyed about a friend leaving her kids pee`d nappy dirty and open on my couch while she went off and did something else for ages - we would never leave a dirty nappy just lying around

I used to take friends nappies and put them in the bin that I was happy for them to go in and unless it was little bubs poo, I think my friends always flushed it down the loo or took it home.
I`m not sure what to suggest cause it does feel like a hard thing to say - yet it is your house and the way you do things should be respected. I know they wont be intentionally offending, but thats what makes it harder to say I guess? ...and in the kitchen bin - urrg.
Perhaps you just need to come out and say something like, " do you mind emptying that in the loo first?". They may be a little surprised, but I`m sure if they will get over it.

I personally have a hard time asking people to take their shoes off when they come in my house... Ive even told someone it was 'fine' that they had their feet in shoes on the arm of my sofa too ?!!

[Bathsheba]

Yep, this is a major reason why I try to use my cloth nappies as much as possible... the idea of putting poo (tonnes of it when you consider most people do it) in the ground ie water table is very disturbing. Sewage needs to be treated to stop disease. Now I'm just as guilty as the next person in putting a certain ammount of poo (soaked in poo in sposies) in the wheelie bin. There's not alot you can do with a sposie... you can't rinse and wring it out. Even my toddler still does the 'soaking in' type poo (still BF and teething).

The reason it's illegal is because it's a health hazard. Pooey nappies sitting in a wheelie bin for a week attract flies... the poo will be growing all manner of germs... how easy for a fly to land on a bin with an open lid... crawl into and over the pooey nappy... then fly back into your house and land on your dinner... yummo... and here's some gastro germs for you too.

Pooey sposies that you can't tip into the toilet should be individually tied up in a separate plastic bag.... where it will fester for the next how-many-hundred years in landfill that will eventually become a new housing estate and then all the accumulated methane will create a situation like the one here in Melbourne's outter East. (My guilt trip as much as anyones).

ETA: we take sposie nappies directly to the wheelie bin. If the family use sposies too we do the same as what they do... and that is never putting them into the kitchen bin... yukko. But with "taking pooey ones home" it's a bit tricky when you are staying overnight? What would be the protocol then?

[agadoo]

i clicked on this thread because i wanted to find out what a 'sposie' was
you leran something new every day! i also didn't know it was illegal to put poo in bins...but everyone is talking about putting pooey nappies in plastic bags in the wheelie bin, so is that illegal too?
what about those nappy disposal units you can buy, where they wrap each nappy up in a bit of plastic so you don't get the festy smell, and then you put that in the bin, are they illegal too?

[Salsa]

Dunno, but I hate the idea of encasing it forever in a neat little fragranced bag. We use a zip lock bag or whatever that can be emptied and sorted out later and the bag reused.

[Epacris]

everyone is talking about putting pooey nappies in plastic bags in the wheelie bin, so is that illegal too?
what about those nappy disposal units you can buy, where they wrap each nappy up in a bit of plastic so you don't get the festy smell, and then you put that in the bin, are they illegal too?

Yes, putting poo in the bin is illegal. Poo must be disposed of in the toilet (sewage system).

[Sammiejane]

Oh Man, thats the height of bad manners!!!

All my friends are sposie users and not one has EVER put a nappy in my kitchen bin, most take their nappies home with them, but some if they are staying a while will ask 'where can i put this'.

I know what you mean about holier than thou, but honestly would they put poo in their own kitchen bin, do they have toddlers or crawlers that could access their bin... YUCK its disgusting.

When MJ is in bed i am going to try and find some info about poo in the bins...

[Lulu]

I spose its better than them putting it in your dessert

[boomba]

I spose its better than them putting it in your dessert

omg isnt!

[Gigi]

ew! how lovely of a "friend" to put human faeces in your bin! How else are diseases transmitted? Why else did so many countries introduce sewerage systems to deal with human waste? Becuase the mortality rates were VERY HIGH before sewerage systems.

ARGH

when people have a cold, they ring and say, i'm not visiting you today, i know you're pregnant and i don't want to make you unwell

how can they THEN suddenly lose any consideration for YOUR health, your unborn baby's health, your toddler's health etc, not to mention PUBLIC health??

Not to mention the awful stench - the last thing a heavily pregnant woman needs to stress her - and i guess, you prolly dealt with it and diposed of it yourself, why should YOU have to do that?

the irresponsibility and lack of respect for YOU from your friend just floors me.

i know someone who is due YESTERDAY and each time i see her, i fuss about her and try to do anything i can, not MAKE work for her, i cannae understand your "friend".

ok, off my soapbox now, but rooooolllly, it makes my blood boil to hear of you being treated like that!

[alioops]

One of DH's old 'friends' (and I use that word very loosely!) used to work for the dump. His job was to sort the recycling into plastics glass and paper. He came across plenty of pooey nappies at work and was quite disgusted.

I have never seen the coucil officers raiding bins, but then again the bins are only out overnight, as they get emptied early in the morning.

Until we switched to cloth, I didn't know that poo in the bin was illegal. I dont have time to read the bottom of the box when I have a nappy to deal with!

Epacris - I have one of those nappy bins that you are welcome to keep it in the toilet with a sign on top saying 'please dispose of poo in the toilet before using this bin'.

[Gigi]

i read that the putting the poo in the loo thing is a local council bylaw issue. Wish i coudl remember WHERE i read that.

i do realise that runny poo is impossible to tip in the loo, i really meant "roll off poos" to go in the loo.

i could not think of anythign more yuck than to have your kitchen bin stinking of poo!


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none of us are perfect, we do the best we can, with the knowledge we have TODAY.
yep, i watch too much Oprah obviously!!! (but it's true anyhoo).

[~clover~]

I've always taken smelly nappies to the outside bin at someone elses house. Just to be polite. Well I usually try to do it at home, so I would do it out too. (I don't get any 'roll off' poo's yet!)

[Bathsheba]

I read somewhere recently (can't remember where exactly) that when you smell a fart it means that microscopic particles of human faeces are captured in the tiny nasal follicles (the tiny hairs in your nose)... so using this logic, if you can smell a pooey nappy then this should mean that the same particles are floating around contaminating the air. Sorry if this is TMI for some people. But I think that it's too easy to disengage yourself from the responsibility of your waste. Sposie nappies have helped create a 'chuck and forget' attitude that I think it's very unhealthy. People, on the whole, have become way too precious these days... and disrespectful in the process.