Trash Day Thoughts

[DailyDi]

Yeah, yeah, the usual: my back hurts. Trash is heavy, yada yada yada

Now that we have a claw truck, I don't worry about double bagging my diapers anymore. Just toss the white bag in the can. NO human eyes go on the trash anymore, just gets picked up by a robo arm and dumped.

[rusty pins]

Well, not quite true in my area.  There is a camera when the claw truck dumps the bin into the trash truck.  The driver watches so no unauthorized or unapproved thrash items get dumped.  Tires, electronics, paint, solvents, things like that.  I once tossed one of those "doughnut" spare car tires in the trash bin and got a notice about it.  Not to worry though, Mikey.  As much as some people may think otherwise, I doubt your diapers count as "Hazardous Waste".  

[Crinklz Kat]

And the claw can't claim workers compensation for the ridiculously heavy bin. 

[Goodnitesboi]

I toss mine either in a garbage bag or a plastic grocery bag.

[spoonchicken]

3 hours ago, DailyDi said:

Yeah, yeah, the usual: my back hurts. Trash is heavy, yada yada yada

Now that we have a claw truck, I don't worry about double bagging my diapers anymore. Just toss the white bag in the can. NO human eyes go on the trash anymore, just gets picked up by a robo arm and dumped.

Until the arm malfunctions and dumps all your used diapers all over the street

[foreverdl]

We have 3 trash cans on wheels, one trash, one green waste, one paper cardboard plastic etc. I got a note on the lid one time when I put scrap wood in the green waste that had some paint on it, he took a Sharpe to right it in red, I had to use rubbing alcohol to get it clean,,, we pay a lot for it so I put all I can in them all to get our money out of it..

They use the truck with claws to dump it, lazy workers....I do know they have a camera in it so they can see what goes in, unless its in a bag... I put 5 pounds and more a day of diapers, we have 2 dogs so the poop goes I,, we have a smelly one for them each week..

[Dubious]

I did a haul on Sunday.

Like mentioned earlier I can't fit everything in the bin as it's shared and I only throw out on trash day. 
I use black bags. 

When I start driving more often, I can spread my trash all over the country. 
(In  bins of course... no idea why I need to mention that...)

[Cute_Kitten]

18 hours ago, rusty pins said:

Well, not quite true in my area.  There is a camera when the claw truck dumps the bin into the trash truck.  The driver watches so no unauthorized or unapproved thrash items get dumped.  Tires, electronics, paint, solvents, things like that.  I once tossed one of those "doughnut" spare car tires in the trash bin and got a notice about it.  Not to worry though, Mikey.  As much as some people may think otherwise, I doubt your diapers count as "Hazardous Waste".  

I had several old- half clean paint cans after cleaning out the basement. I put one or two at a time in black garbage bags the heavy duty kind, put other garbage on top of hte paint cans and my garbage men never knew. 😆

[zzyzx]

9 hours ago, Cute_Kitten said:

I had several old- half clean paint cans after cleaning out the basement. I put one or two at a time in black garbage bags the heavy duty kind, put other garbage on top of hte paint cans and my garbage men never knew. 😆

@Cute_Kitten: If it was latex based paint and you let the paint dry out in the can, around here that is what your supposed to do - dispose the dried can in the garbage.

[Cute_Kitten]

1 hour ago, zzyzx said:

@Cute_Kitten: If it was latex based paint and you let the paint dry out in the can, around here that is what your supposed to do - dispose the dried can in the garbage.

It was old paint from ...before Covid times, a DIY paint jobs. the lids were pretty much welded shut with old dried paint, and nothing in the can sloshed so it was probably dry inside as well. 

[technomonkey]

So i have a 33-Gallon Large Trash can i use (Sam's club) Member's Mark Power Flex 33-Gallon Large Trash Bags, 90 ct. My wet diapers go in the all the rest of the trash in the house the bags hold a good 30lbs. then i have out door trash can on wheels and it holds 4 of the trash bags full. I don't know any of the garbage people so i don't care what they see or don't see. the truck has an arm grabs can dumps and on to the next. 

I see my FedEx or UPS people more than garbage people. lol 

[Firefly 35]

On 4/20/2026 at 9:04 PM, spoonchicken said:

Until the arm malfunctions and dumps all your used diapers all over the street

News channel:

"One of the city's trash collection vehicles took a crap earlier today after the hydraulic arm broke.  According to the driver, a 250 lb bin of used diapers was likely at fault.  Stay tuned for more updates."

That probably wouldn't happen though since pretty much all heavy eqipment made within the past 20 years or so has safety features to prevent things like that.

[Crinklz Kat]

15 hours ago, Firefly 35 said:

News channel:

"One of the city's trash collection vehicles took a crap earlier today after the hydraulic arm broke.  According to the driver, a 250 lb bin of used diapers was likely at fault.  Stay tuned for more updates."

That probably wouldn't happen though since pretty much all heavy eqipment made within the past 20 years or so has safety features to prevent things like that.

Except that it has.

 

[Crinklz Kat]

And this just rolled into my timeline....  

 

[Stroller]

I don't get through many disposables, as I'm mostly in cloth nappies.  When I do have disposables to get rid of, I just put them in with our normal rubbish, in semi-transparent plastic bags.  The binmen don't really look at what's in the bin, they just roll it to the lorry, which picks it up and empties it.  These days I'm not really bothered whether they do spot the nappies in there anyway - I'm doing nothing wrong. The same with hanging cloth nappies on the line to dry - my neighbours can see the line, but if they join the dots and realise I must be in nappies, it's not a big deal for me. I'm not flaunting it, just getting on with my life.

[rusty pins]

Slightly off subject, but I usually bag up my wet diapers in individual plastic bags from the grocery store and Walmart.  I usually double or triple bag them and when I go out for gas or to the grocery store, I will toss them in the public trash can in front of the entrance.  Usually only one or two diapers at a time, no more.

I normally wear all white diapers like Betterdry, Wellness Briefs, Abena and others. Recently I bought a bag of Crinklz Buccaneer diapers because I thought a splash of color would be good for a change (pun intended).  Unfortunately, I discovered after double and even triple bagging one in Walmart plastic bags, the printing is still clearly visible through the thin white plastic of Walmart bags.  It means I have to be a bit more discreet when walking from my car in the parking lot to the entrance of any store so other shoppers won't get an idea of just what I'm tossing in the trash cans. 

[Goerge]

Here in the UK you used to have to have a clinical waste bin to dispose of your IC waste and them bins are bright yellow and you have to use clinical waste bags which were also bright yellow, thankfully the councils decided you can put IC waste in your normal collection bin around 2010. I would off liked a yellow clinical waste bin because it was a weekly pick up instead of every two weeks with general waste and because off all the nappies I use my bins get full rather quickly.

[foreverdl]

On 5/18/2026 at 6:41 AM, rusty pins said:

Slightly off subject, but I usually bag up my wet diapers in individual plastic bags from the grocery store and Walmart.  I usually double or triple bag them and when I go out for gas or to the grocery store, I will toss them in the public trash can in front of the entrance.  Usually only one or two diapers at a time, no more.

I normally wear all white diapers like Betterdry, Wellness Briefs, Abena and others. Recently I bought a bag of Crinklz Buccaneer diapers because I thought a splash of color would be good for a change (pun intended).  Unfortunately, I discovered after double and even triple bagging one in Walmart plastic bags, the printing is still clearly visible through the thin white plastic of Walmart bags.  It means I have to be a bit more discreet when walking from my car in the parking lot to the entrance of any store so other shoppers won't get an idea of just what I'm tossing in the trash cans. 

I don't know about in your state, but the only store here that can use the cheap thin plastic bags is like Home Depot etc, any grocery store etc has to use Paper bags now and it's a dime a bag for a crap bag that you are lucky to make it home with, so I still use the Costco cheapest small trash can bags and just tie them up each day and toss them in our outside container that gets picked up once a week...

[Crinklz Kat]

2 hours ago, foreverdl said:

I don't know about in your state, but the only store here that can use the cheap thin plastic bags is like Home Depot etc, any grocery store etc has to use Paper bags now and it's a dime a bag for a crap bag that you are lucky to make it home with, so I still use the Costco cheapest small trash can bags and just tie them up each day and toss them in our outside container that gets picked up once a week...

It's like that here too.  It's rare for me to get any plastic shopping bags anymore.

 

@rusty pins One other option I've used is 4gal waste basket bags.   Generally available at supermarkets in boxes of 20 or 30 or something like that.  Still not the greatest at odor control, but some are more opaque than others.  I still have some so I'll have to test them against some of the more vibrant printed diapers.   The only truly opaque bags I've used are of course black trash bags or the Odor No bags (but they're "medical green" just like the old Depends).   I've never seen black/dark wastebasket bags of any size. 

[rusty pins]

I actually prefer paper bags to plastic bags.  12 million barrels of oil per year are used to produce plastic bags.  I appreciate the option, Crinklz Kat, but the grocery stores I shop at all seem to relish packing the smallest number of groceries in the largest amount of plastic bags.  Some have recycling bins for customers to bring in their plastic grocery bags, and I will drop a lot of mine off for recycling.  The fact is, if they are going to pack my groceries in their plastic bags, I'm going to reuse them for disposing of my diapers rather than add to the problem by buying more plastic bags just for the disposal of my diapers.  Yes, I also use cloth reusable grocery bags too.

[foreverdl]

6 minutes ago, rusty pins said:

I actually prefer paper bags to plastic bags.  12 million barrels of oil per year are used to produce plastic bags.  I appreciate the option, Crinklz Kat, but the grocery stores I shop at all seem to relish packing the smallest number of groceries in the largest amount of plastic bags.  Some have recycling bins for customers to bring in their plastic grocery bags, and I will drop a lot of mine off for recycling.  The fact is, if they are going to pack my groceries in their plastic bags, I'm going to reuse them for disposing of my diapers rather than add to the problem by buying more plastic bags just for the disposal of my diapers.  Yes, I also use cloth reusable grocery bags too.

If they would make the paper bags stronger? but they make them very cheap so you had better hold them by the bottom and not the handles I have used the 8 gallon clear cheap thin tray bags for yrs for diapers and I get a whole day in it. We used to use the plastic grocery bags for food trash and then give extra bags to a second hand store,, they don't want and will not take the paper bags. So we toss those all out..

[Crinklz Kat]

On 5/19/2026 at 5:25 PM, foreverdl said:

If they would make the paper bags stronger? but they make them very cheap so you had better hold them by the bottom and not the handles I have used the 8 gallon clear cheap thin tray bags for yrs for diapers and I get a whole day in it. We used to use the plastic grocery bags for food trash and then give extra bags to a second hand store,, they don't want and will not take the paper bags. So we toss those all out..

Your bags have handles?   What they use around here are the traditional bags I remember were common in the 60's into the 80's before plastic became common.  Just flat sided square bottomed bags.   

[Little Sherri]

On 4/20/2026 at 9:04 PM, spoonchicken said:

Until the arm malfunctions and dumps all your used diapers all over the street

I didn't have this happen, exactly, but I had a garbage bin get hit by a snow plow a few years ago, with predictable results. The bin pinwheeled into my snow-filled ditch, and in the process, vomited out much of its contents, most of which remained in the bags, but one kitchen bag that wasn't in a black garbage back exploded, and a few white and a couple of printed, balled-up diapers were sitting in the twinkling snow. My wife texted me "You'd better have a look up by the road..." as she left, not explaining why, which meant I didn't go out there until I'd finished my coffee. I started running, once I realized what had happened, because neighbours and school buses drive past our house at that time in the morning. 

I'm pretty sure my trash collectors know what's up, because my bins are heavy, and in the summer, if not year-round, they don't smell nice, between my diapers, and the dog's poop bags (which you are not allowed to put in the organics bin, in my region). 

[Crinklz Kat]

Many many moons ago back when I was renting a room in a house with some other guys, I had a similar "OH SHIT" episode.  The guy that owned the house had a dog.  One cold winter day after a major snow storm, the dog got into the trash bags that had collected because regular trash collection had been interrupted.  Well, my used diapers were in at least one of those bags and ended up strewn across the snow.  I was very fortunate that I was usually the first to get home and once I saw it, panicked to get it all cleaned up before anybody else showed up.   Now, this was back in the day when we had no ABDL diapers, so they were all just the regular Attends that were available at the time.   Still, horrifying to think if others would have actually seen them. 

[Goerge]

2 hours ago, Crinklz Kat said:

Your bags have handles?      

The more expensive black bags sold in the UK have handles but I just buy the cheapest black bags as they are good for 4/5 wet/messy nappies a day, always empty my nappy bin in the early morning. For the poopy nappies I always use a separate small green nappy bag then put them in the black bin liner. I think the purpose bags you can buy for your nappy bin are a waste of money because they are sufficiently more expensive then black bin liners and do the same job, I can get 20 bin bags for £1.50 instead of the £15 for the purpose nappy bags.