1 more question if you use disposables...

Wrap it in nappy and chuck it. And usually wrap in another plastic bag as well... which means longer time to break down (add an extra couple of hundred years)

They had an article on mondern cloth in the Dom Post Weekender today. I was stoked that they'd put it in the paper but it didn't have any photos!!!! (only a cartoon of a baby wearing a printed nappy) And the only brand he mentioned was an australian one which he was complaining about leaking! I think it could have been done better. Tempted to write and tell them.

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my daughter's poo's still aren't solid enough for flushing. i wrap it in the nappy and then plastic bag it.

We have a rubbish bin (pedal one) in the porch that only nappies go into (with poos inside). I only put them in the plastic bags when I'm putting them in someone else's bin. The nappy bin gets emptied into the wheely bin every 2-3 days when it gets full. I used to used a supermarket bag in the nappy bin as a liner, but can't make time for that at the mo, (and do we need more plastic bags at the tip?) - maybe later I'll do this again.
Rosie

straight in wheelie bin.

i cant believe how many people dont flush the contents. frankly i am shocked...

when i first started using cloth i used to get annoyed at all the clothies saying that disposable users dont flush the nappy contents. i thought how judgmental of them, of course people flush the contents. After all i certainly did and it does say to on the packets. Now newborn poos i understand cause theres no way they come off the nappy, but the rest....and that sits around your houses for a couple of days... eeewwww

(am off high horse now.)

we got a rubbish hole on the farm and whenever a grocery bag is full it goes down with david before milking. One advantage of not living in town I guess

Thanks again I jsut wanted to put something in about the majority of people chucking rather than flushing, and the effects of raw human waste at landfills etc etc...

I flush, then sangenic. God knows that one good cr@p
stinks the room out anyway, and sometimes, even in the sngenic if it hasn't been flushed (dh dosn't flsh) I can smell it and it makes me puke.

I've never read the nappy packet. Dunno if the bin smells or not - I can barely smell the poos now, except if it's a bum that needs changing.
Our outside bin is out of the sun. I think the wheely bin smells though.
Rosie

i'm guilty of being a non-flusher
i never really thought of it, i just want to get rid of the smelly thing as soon as possible, outside into the wheelie bin they go.