What do you do with the poop in your disposable nappies?

[bada]

Do you throw it in the bin with the nappy? Or do you first dispose of the poop down the toilet or elsewere (:confused:) before throwing the nappy out?

I ask because I just read this

in most areas it is illegal to throw faeces in the bin as it can result in the transmitting of diseases and contamination of the watertable.

It's rare that my DD does one in her nappy but if she does it goes down the toilet. But in the early days how on earth would you get the runny newborn stuff off a sposie nappy :confused:


Private poll to follow (ie answers are private)

[Jensha]

Where did you read that? I just throw it out with the nappy! I didn't know this was wrong...everyone I know and see just do this as well. Not that, that makes it right. I just thought it was the done thing.

[Seacretsquirrel]

I didn't know this either till I read a post on here (possibly the same one you did) so with DD I just folded it all up in the nappy - she is TT'd now so I don't have to worry about her. But DS is still doing those lovely NB poos so I have no idea how one would go about tossing that in the loo very interesting!

[Pax]

My baby is disease free...

we throw ours in the bin

if she had a disease i would find information on how to dispose of them safely.

[Jensha]

Even though DD is 2 she does often have poo that would be too hard to take off the nappy...
Plus most of the time we're out so it's inconvenient to find a toilet.

I agree Morrigan. My DD doesn't have diseases. So cannot transfer anything. Unless poo itself can carry disease? Can it?

[DreamBelieveAchieve]

I saw somebody flushing it last week at the shopping centre, i was amazed, i have never seen anybody do this with a sposie..

[Hollywood]

DS is toilet trained now, but when he was in nappies I used to flush whatever I could down the toilet. Sometimes I just couldn't (I'm sure I don't need to explain why), but if it rolled off it went in the toilet.

I think it's revolting to put poo in the rubbish bin :barf: especially once they're on solids.

Plus, we have a communal bin room wayyyy down in our basement garage (we live in an apartment complex), so it was not practical or possible to take each pooey nappy down to the bins, so I just couldn't put pooey nappies in our kitchen bin, even if they were in nappy sacks.

[fludo]

I put the poop in the toilet, but probably because I use cloth most of the time so it's a habit. I always wonder though if other people do it (with disposables). Dunno about the runny newborn poos. With cloth I used a little squirt, but I probably wouldn't bother with disposables.

Re diseases: I think the idea is that bacteria breed in poop - ecoli for one. I don't think your child has to actually have a disease. I had heard before about how you're not supposed to put poo in the bin. Poo has to be treated properly - imagine if we all put our poo in the bin and it wasn't treated and all just went to landfill - ewww!!!!!:barf:

[Looshkin]

My baby is disease free...

we throw ours in the bin

if she had a disease i would find information on how to dispose of them safely.

It's not so much about disease as it is about the pollution of having human feces in land fills.

Pesonally the thought of throwing it in the bin makes me :mad: but so does any unnecessary pollution.

Surely you could get a flushable liner for disposables so the liner disolves and the poo is treated at sewerage treatment place..?
Maybe nappies should come with a flushable liner.. :thumbsup:

[fludo]

Surely you could get a flushable liner for disposables so the liner disolves and the poo is treated at sewerage treatment place..?
Maybe nappies should come with a flushable liner.. :thumbsup:

Ooh I like that idea! :iagree:

[Veritas]

It gets shaken off into the loo....

I think you might find most packaging on nappy packets has instructions as such.... and the information regarding disposal....

As someone else said, its not about whether your child has diseases or not, its human faeces in landfill.... sewage is treated at treatment plants.... untreated human waste in landfill is a hazard to the environment....

[elalha]

Yes, I have a 'Snugglers' pack here and it says on the packet: "If soiled, empty solids in toilet"

I rarely use sposies now but when I do I get as much as I can off into the toilet.

[Guest1234]

I dont, I know I should, but I dont. But apparently I have read of people using spatulas to get it off to flush. Eww I wouldnt want a spatula hanging around that has been used to scrape poo into a toilet.

[Opinionated]

Yes, all poo is meant to go in the toilet and it says that on every packet of disposables. Just imagine, rubbish isn't that hygienic as it is, but imagine a compacter squishing a bag of poopy nappies and poo goes everywhere. Yuk. Not very nice for the people that work processing rubbish.

Also, you don't have to have a terrible disease to transmit illness, E.coli bacteria found in all poo can spread gastro.

Yuk, no wonder I use cloth. All our poo gets flushed and properly treated in a sewage facility.

[Opinionated]

I dont, I know I should, but I dont. But apparently I have read of people using spatulas to get it off to flush. Eww I wouldnt want a spatula hanging around that has been used to scrape poo into a toilet.


You can use a spatula specifically for this purpose and leave it in with your toilet cleaning brush once you have run it under a flush.

[Guest1234]

You can use a spatula specifically for this purpose and leave it in with your toilet cleaning brush once you have run it under a flush.

I know, but knowing my DD she would get into it, some how. Bleugh. I just dont find the idea of it hanging around very appealing to me.

[hailsntwang]

Whats the difference between Dog poop and human poop?

I don't flush my dog poop down the toilet. That goes in a bag and goes into the bin which goes to the local dump.

I do the same with my nappies. I have never really heard of anybody doing anything different. Maybe it's time I start reading the backs of nappies:o

[Seekrit]

Dogs don't eat the same amount of crap that human's eat... dog poo breaks down quicker - in fact feed your dog on a natural diet (raw mince, bones, mined vegies) and their poo will break down and go that grey colour in a day. :)

Breast milk nappies I just throw in the trash, but once she gets some solids in her I'll start putting the poo in the toilet. That stuff smells nasty, I mainly do it to make it all smell less :p Environmental impact comes second. :p

[sweetseven]

DP used to work in disability services, and they had to doublebag any soiled disposable pads they disposed of.

[hailsntwang]

SEEKRIT - Thanks:thumbsup:

I honestly had no idea!

[Blueberry Crumble]

I eat it.

[sweetseven]

I eat it.I remember when we hand chickens, and they loved pecking at my daughters soiled cloth nappies.

[Blueberry Crumble]

I remember when we hand chickens, and they loved pecking at my daughters soiled cloth nappies.

Where did you change your babys nappies, in the chook house? :laughing:

[~Temet Nosce~]

Um, no in the bin! Always have done it that way and not about to change it. If anyone has a problem with that they can come over and scrape the crap into the bin themselves :p:barf:

[sweetseven]

*laughs*

The chickens were free range in the back yard, and we had an external laundry under the house which the door didn't latch on, so they could just push the door open, or it would sometimes just blow open with the wind.

There was a shoot to send down the dirty laundry. So the nappies would be emptied into the toilet, but invariably matter would be stuck to them. Then they would go down the laundry shoot, and I would later go and wash them all.

My daughter at the time soiled pretty much every nappy she wore.

[Looshkin]

I thought it was the other way around seekrit.

I have a doggy toilet (read a smaller than normal garbag bin buried to the lid in the yard with the bottom cut out that we empty the poo in but we add drops of sewerage treatment (pretty sure its enzyme based) to aid it to break down so never as to avoid harm to the water table.

But then I have this separate one, as it's not reccomended to put meat in the compost and so not rec to use dog or cat feacal matter like you would use chicken or farm animal stuff.

Anyway I thought dog poo could take longer than many many months to break down, where as even human poo will compost faster than that, and if produced from a human with a vegetarian diet human poo is even fine for composting.
I do know of people using soil in areas dogs poo has been composted or worm farmed, but only on rotation severa years later and definitely not root crops.

Interesting though that the majority of imported rice or food stock from south east asia would on purpose/inadvertently be fertilised with human feaces.

Oh I'm blahing on, but the one thing I know *for sure* is that even after the dog poo has broken down or washed away and is no longer visible, parvo virus can still remain unseen for a year, and also particularly in the city problems with giardia and e-coli and other bacteria washed into the storm drains can affect the beaches and further out in the water basin can contaminate the humans drinking supply.

I'm pretty sure there are still landfills within the zones of the water basin though, so it's a real worry to me throwing any human or dog/cat/ poo in the bin or leaving it on the streets etc!:(

Sorry I'm not meaning to be on a soapbox, I promise. But I do think tis important .:o

[bada]

there was a shoot to send down the dirty laundry. absolute genius!!!!

[nothanksbye]

I bin it at the moment as she is breastfed bubba with mustard seed poos.

But once she is on solids it wil go in the toilet.
I did that with all DD's and DS's.

I thought thats why Nappy sacks were invented..so when out you can take the soiled nappy home and get rid of the poo??

[rainbow road]

I have always scraped poo out of the nappies of the kids I nanny/babysit for though none of their parents do.

[jag5000]

I toilet it.. DH doesn't

bit of a cause of friction actually... now we are full time cloth he often leaves it for me to deal with (ie, flush) grrr!

[A Party of Five]

I put the poop in the toilet, but probably because I use cloth most of the time so it's a habit.

Same here :yes:

[Yummy_Mummy]

im naughty i just bin it! (thank goodnes for lemon scented bin liners) hahaha i just cant imagine scraping poo off a nappy i am going to throw out anyway & i had never heard of anyone scraping it off until right now as i read this... DD poos are quite sticky & gooey (sorry TMI) but i doubt much would come off as it smears in the nappy

[bada]

bump

[BabelFish]

Goes in the loo here. But we don't use sposies. Never will.

[bada]

bin..... with 3 kids in sposies and only one tt i struggle just to walk to the bin let alone toilet then bin lol so tired..... I've trained 22 mo DD to put hers in the bin herself :D She actually goes and gets the fresh nappy and wipes to change it too!!

[naebie]

When DD was younger I'd use flushable liners, as I knew there'd be a poo in every nappy and that it would be impossible to scrape.
Now that she is older we've ditched the liners, but still put the poo in the toilet, or at least most of it. I don't scrape, but I do put the nappy low into the toilet and tip most of it out- Obviously there are times when some of it sticks.

[IndigoJ]

I use Cloth so it goes in the toilet, before i did though it went in the bin. I have a case of the guilts over it too. I find binning it grosser than toileting it.

[ejandakrose]

To be honest, I never even thought about the possible consequences of putting DD poo in the garbage. I''ve always just folded it up and popped it in the bin. I've never seen anyone scrape poo into the toilet either. You learn something new everyday!

[aprileviesmum]

Sorry in advance if this is TMI.
If the poo looks hard i put in straight in the toilet and flush it.
If the poo is runny and sticking to the nappy then i put it in a nappy sack and then take it outside and put it in the big bins outside.
My mother first told me that you should put the baby's poo in the toilet. I thought she was crazy and laughed at her. But she persisted telling me its better for the environment if you put the poo in the toilet.
So i looked it up on the net and lo and behold my mum was right! LOL.

[sweetseven]

I use cloth and dispose of poo either in the toilet or buried in the garden. My current house has the only toilet in the body of the house, and I really don't feel comfortable carting raw sewerage through the kitchen, lounge and past the bedrooms to take it to the toilet, which is why I've started burying it in the garden sometimes. If I were using disposables, I might be tempted to take the easy option of the wheelie bin.

[tbmum]

The simpler solution is to use a flushable nappy liner - flick the poo into the loo, whatever sort of nappy it is.

I must admit, I had not thought about the fact that the bin trucks compress the waste - that is SUCH a gross thought!

A Nappy Sprayer is another option for the cloth users.

- Charndra :yes: Green Nappies are a good idea!

[MordecaiAliVanAllenO'Shea]

Another who used to bin it just cause I'd never heard of any different, then switched to cloth when DS1 was 6months and so used to flushing it now I feel gross at the thought of binning poo - when we use sposies I flush it now. Fortunately DS2 hasnt pooed in a nappy in quite a while though!

[MummaBear03]

On the rare occasion DD was in a disposable nappy, I would use a liner with it and it would go in the toilet even when we were out, but mostly she was in cloth anyway even if we were out and about. I used washable liners but poo didn't seem to stick to that like I've seen it stick to disposable nappies. At work we are meant to put it in the bin but not many people do that, and I don't quite know how to do that when you have less than 2 minutes to change each nappy, including hand washing time and gloving up time.

[Looshkin]

Well, I think ALL disposable nappies should come with flushable liners already in them - it should be some kind of legislation - so that anyone that uses disposables throws the liner in the bin and avoids human sh1t being in landfill when your childrens children have kids.

Frigging disgusting. :barf:

[mynaturalbaby]

I use cloth 99% of the time, but when I use disposables, I make sure to dump the poop in the toilet. In some countries such as the US, it's illegal to dump feces in the rubbish.... Think about it, do you want that poop finding it's way into the waterways? I don't think so!
Flush before you dump!