That’s what I think it every time I change a poopy diaper. My friend Laurie told me that while I was changing a diaper at her house and it’s revolutionized my thinking (if not my actual habits).
I think we’ve tried nearly every kind of disposable diaper disposal system and I hate them all. My preferred method is now to wrap the offending Huggie in a plastic bag then whisk the fecal diaper right outside and into the big bin to wait for it’s Thursday pick-up.
But you need to have buy in from other adults in the household for that method to work. Otherwise, you just have poopy diapers laying around — not going into the champ — waiting for their bag or their escort to the street.
Can anyone please help me?!
What works best for those offensive toddler diapers?
Our current disposal model goes like this:
- Pee diapers go right into the diaper champ.
- Poopy diapers go right outside or wait around festering.
In the boys’ bedroom, we have a diaper champ. It stinks for toddler diapers. Even with a trucker air freshener. It worked just great for those sweet(er)-smelling newborn diapers.
At my mom’s house, there’s a diaper genie. Too confusing. And those plastic sausages strike me as super un-environmentally-friendly. I already have disposable diaper guilt.
In the bathroom, we have a flip top garbage pail. It stinks like a revolving door onto a sewage processing plant.
Also in the bathroom, we have a small garbage can that we use for other bathroom garbage, but I find that if I just keep diapers in there until they bug me, it’s a pretty workable system.
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Why not flush the poop itself, and then wrap up the diaper and dispose of it as you would a plain wet diaper? We have a Diaper Champ as well, and it can get stinky when it’s full, but otherwise, it’s pretty odor-free.
Gross, maybe – but no worse than changing the poopy diaper in the first place…
I really like g diapers. It’s a little gross to have to get a little more involved with the diaper contents by taking the inserts apart and flushing them (and the poop), but it’s not too bad. And the poop ends up in the toilet.
I agree, flip the poo in the toilet. We use cloth dipes and obviously that’s what we do before we put it in the pail. While I wouldn’t open up the pail and stick my nose in, you can’t really smell the diapers in the room.
Besides, I’ve heard rumor that it is actually printed somewhere on the disposable package that you are *supposed* to flush solid waste. Landfills are not equiped to properly process human waste while our septic systems are.
(Not to say that I’ve never used a disposable and wrapped the whole thing up in the trash. LOL)
Oh and I forgot to mention that I sometimes sprinkle some baking soda in the pail. If you have some essential oils to mix with the bs, even better.
Chalk up another one for flushing the poop! I save used plastic sandwich baggies for containing Huggies that still has some-er-stinky residue and then I toss the ziplocked diaper in the kitchen trash or take it outside.
I’m a flusher, too. But that’s assuming that your kids are into the formed patties or only semi-soft patties stage. My 18mo old neighbor still has poops that look like bf babypoop!
I have been LOVING the formed poops, as far as changing poopy diapers go, that is. heh.
So I flush, wrap it up (w/ it’s own tabs) and place in the diaper genie 2 – no sausage, just one long bratwurst at the end when you change it out.
That works for me — we never have diapie stink in the house, but you can get a whiff of peepee diap smell when you open the genie occasionally.
By law, all fecal matter in *any* diaper (disposable or otherwise) must be flushed before it is trashed. If you throw it out in your garbage with poop still inside, it is considered toxic waste; some do this, many don’t. I am a flusher, although I started because I used cloth for the first 6 months and then lost my nerve when he started eating solids, and now we’re back to cloth again. Flushing all the poop made all the difference when using disposables!