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

[Epacris]

I HATE it when sposie user guests come over and put sposies in my kitchen bin with poo inside!!!! I hate it even more if they either don't bring a bag to put the sposie in first (before putting it in the bin) or ask me for a bag to put it in! Argh!!!

I am weird? Does this bother anyone else? It drives me insane and makes my blood boil!!! But, I feel totally incapable of saying anything? I am not a shy person, why can't I say to my friends, people I know well, "Actually we are a poo in the toilet house, you'll have to take that home with you and put it in your own bin". Why do I just go along with it and let them do it?

Argh, where do I start, it's disgusting, it's totally illegal and we are a POO IN THE TOILET HOUSE! One of the best things about cloth is that all our bins (kitchen, otto) don't have that horrible pong assault when you open them.

Why don't I say anything? I'm angry at myself too for letting this happen?

Grrr, perhaps I should have put this in the BooHoo room as a vent.

Does anyone else feel like this? How do you deal with it? Any ideas? I guess I'm just going to have to summon up the courage and say something with the best mix of serious tone and humour I can find???

[*charmalea*]

casually enquire if the kid has done a poop when the person is changing it , then say "oh , we put the poo in the toilet here , just shake it in to the loo and i'll get you a bag to put the nappy in "

I then go on to say how its illegal to put poo in the bin , most ppl dont know its illegal and will oblige and probably even feel guilty enough to keep doing it and usually are happy you helped them !!!!

dont be shy , its your house - you live there ...


and labour vibes for you !!

[kelebek]

First of all didn't I didn't realise it was illegal but more importantly I would never put a pooey sposies in someone's kitchen bin. I nearly always have a bag with me to put the sposie in first & then generally put in their otto. I usualy ask the first time I am around at someone's house & would have no worries about taking the nappy with me if they weren't comfortable with me putting it into the bin. It is afterall my rubbish not someone else's & I should have to deal with it.

The first time you speak up will be hard but do it anyway, explain your reasons, you might have to have a few bags ready the first few times for people to take their sposies with them while they get use to the new rules. People don't bat an eyelid when you ask them to take off their shoes so they should do this as well.

GL with it & sending you lot's of good labour vibes

[Peach]

I would simply say .. "Would you mid putting in the wheelie bin for me "? I am certain most people wouldn't mind in the slightest!

[Arimeh]

I remember when I wasn't using cloth that I didn't know it was illegal to put poop in the bin - I knew that it wasn't recommended, but not that it was actually illegal.

But whenever I changed DS at someone elses house - I would always ask if it was ok to put in in the bin - if it was a wee - and I would take the poopy one home with me. Most people who come to my house, just wrap it up and take it with them.

Now when I'm at someone's house - I ask if I can borrow their toilet to drop the poop into.. lol... I've yet to have someone say no.

Stick to your guns, gather your courage and just say it. You might be surprised at how easy it gets to say it the second time

[Visitor8]

wow I didn't know it was illegal...

[boomba]

Ewww thats so gross! Even if they dont know its illeagal why would you put poo in the bin yuck! I would say something. I know I would find it hard too but sometimes it better to say something than leave it? Surely they dont put it in their bin at home?

The first time you speak up will be hard but do it anyway, explain your reasons, you might have to have a few bags ready the first few times for people to take their sposies with them while they get use to the new rules. People don't bat an eyelid when you ask them to take off their shoes so they should do this as well.

Well said!

There should be a big sign on the disopsable boxes saying all poo should go in the toilet!

Hope you find the courage to say something good luck x

[~Raven~]

I wouldn't be able to not say anything! Especially when it will stink out my kitchen

Do you have any plastic shopping bags? I have a few that I use as bin liners and before or as the nappy gets changed I will offer them one of those to take it home in.
I totally agree about flushing poo down the toilet and do it when we use sposies from time to time but I really don't like getting righteous on my friends. I find that offering the bag to take it home in is enough of a hint

[fionas]

In my house I put pooey nappies into one of those little plastic nappy bag things then put it in the kitchen bin. Sorry, didn't know it was illegal.

There is NO WAY I would put a pooey nappy into someone else's kitchen bin even though I do it myself at home. I would wrap it up and either take it home or put it in their wheelie bin (if I asked).

I would offer them a plastic bag (they can hardly refuse that) and then say "I'll pop that into the wheelie bin for you" until they get the idea and just start doing that themselves.

[{sarah}]

There should be a big sign on the disopsable boxes saying all poo should go in the toilet!

There is It's not huge, but it is definitely there.

[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.

[Kitt3n]

casually enquire if the kid has done a poop when the person is changing it , then say "oh , we put the poo in the toilet here , just shake it in to the loo and i'll get you a bag to put the nappy in "

I then go on to say how its illegal to put poo in the bin , most ppl dont know its illegal and will oblige and probably even feel guilty enough to keep doing it and usually are happy you helped them !!!!

dont be shy , its your house - you live there ...


and labour vibes for you !!

:yeahthat:

[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!


Maya Angelou says "when you know better, you do better".
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.