Menstrual Pad disposal at Home - What do you use?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think younger people use pads so I wouldn’t suggest them to a teenager! Cups and menstrual underwear are what most people use. Or tampons.

We always have a covered trash can at home because we have dogs.

I'm steering my daughter away from menstrual underwear until there is more research on what's in the underwear. From what I've read, underwear like thinx are full of PFAS and other toxic chemicals. Definitely a concern for growing bodies. I think it's safer to use pads or tampons. And cups are just gross.

Google menstrual underwear and PFAS. Supposedly there are toxic free alternatives but I don't trust them.

Lol how is a cup grosser than basically wearing a diaper?

Lol for one thing you dont have to stick your fingers up into you and pull out a blood fillled cup and rinse and reuse

Hmm I don’t think it is gross to stick my fingers inside myself. What is gross about that?

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Anonymous wrote:WHY are people wrapping in TP or tissue is my burning question lol
I really need to know

In my case, we dump the trash into a larger bag rather than replace the smaller bag all the time. If you don't wrap, the pad sticks to the bag or smears blood everywhere.

Also, the tp helps contain the odor. A pad that isn’t wrapped may open and then that disgusting smell floats around.

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Anonymous wrote:I always wrap in the plastic wrapper the new pad comes in. Doesn’t everyone so that? You are presumably discarding a used pad/tampon and replacing it with a fresh one, yes?

I use OB tampons so they only have a bit of plastic around them, not enough to wrap the old one in. I use TP.

Same, love OB. If I travel, I do take a few extra biodegradable dog poop bags with me.

Why are you wrapping your tampon? You can just flush it.

Either way this thread is bizarre and I agree with the poster who said most aren’t wearing disposable pads anymore.

No, you most definitely cannot flush tampons, ever. Are you dumb?

NP here. Yes, you can.

Those five years on septic were longest of my life.

Tampons are absolutely flushable, it says so right on the box.

You are dumb as rocks. No you cannot flush them and it says on the box NOT to flush them. This isn’t 1990s and you should really know better as an adult woman

https://tampax.com/en-us/about/sustainability/can-you-flush-tampons/

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Anonymous wrote:WHY are people wrapping in TP or tissue is my burning question lol
I really need to know

In my case, we dump the trash into a larger bag rather than replace the smaller bag all the time. If you don't wrap, the pad sticks to the bag or smears blood everywhere.

Also, the tp helps contain the odor. A pad that isn’t wrapped may open and then that disgusting smell floats around.

Don’t you have trash cans with lids in the bathroom? How much do your pads smell????

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When I was a young girl teen my sisters and I wrapped them in yesterday’s newspaper and placed in bathroom wastebasket. So few families read newspapers these days this could be difficult.

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Anonymous wrote:WHY are people wrapping in TP or tissue is my burning question lol
I really need to know

In my case, we dump the trash into a larger bag rather than replace the smaller bag all the time. If you don't wrap, the pad sticks to the bag or smears blood everywhere.

Also, the tp helps contain the odor. A pad that isn’t wrapped may open and then that disgusting smell floats around.

Don’t you have trash cans with lids in the bathroom? How much do your pads smell????

Disgusting and misogynistic comment — shaming other women for having stinky 🐱’s. Guess what sweetie, I doubt yours smells like roses either.

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Op here. Thank you all. For those asking as I use BC and with a thyroid issue, I do not have periods as an adult.

For the MIL story, I traveled with her as a teenager and as I had left two tampons in once for a long tome post period ending ( no tss thankfully) I was solely using pads and at her home she used their paper bag system.

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Anonymous wrote:Op here. Thank you all. For those asking as I use BC and with a thyroid issue, I do not have periods as an adult.

For the MIL story, I traveled with her as a teenager and as I had left two tampons in once for a long tome post period ending ( no tss thankfully) I was solely using pads and at her home she used their paper bag system.

This response makes everything so much stranger…you stayed with your MIL as a teenager and discussed leaving in two tampons?

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Anonymous wrote:Op here. Thank you all. For those asking as I use BC and with a thyroid issue, I do not have periods as an adult.

For the MIL story, I traveled with her as a teenager and as I had left two tampons in once for a long tome post period ending ( no tss thankfully) I was solely using pads and at her home she used their paper bag system.

This response makes everything so much stranger…you stayed with your MIL as a teenager and discussed leaving in two tampons?

DH and I have been together since middle school.

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Anonymous wrote:WHY are people wrapping in TP or tissue is my burning question lol
I really need to know

So others don’t have to see/smell your bloody pad.

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Anonymous wrote:Op here. Thank you all. For those asking as I use BC and with a thyroid issue, I do not have periods as an adult.

For the MIL story, I traveled with her as a teenager and as I had left two tampons in once for a long tome post period ending ( no tss thankfully) I was solely using pads and at her home she used their paper bag system.

This response makes everything so much stranger…you stayed with your MIL as a teenager and discussed leaving in two tampons?

2 tampons at once??

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Stop using pads/tampons and creating more waste. My teens and I use period underwear or menstrual cups. Easy to use and better for the environment.

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Anonymous wrote:I cradle each used pad or tampon in a melange of potpourri inside a sheet of Bloomin Paper, tie the package shut with raffia ribbon, and then gently place it in a trash receptacle while meditating on my strength as a woman.

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Very curious how some of you would survive in a country where you can’t flush toilet paper! You just wipe and…throw it in the trash can! 😂

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Anonymous wrote:I always wrap in the plastic wrapper the new pad comes in. Doesn’t everyone so that? You are presumably discarding a used pad/tampon and replacing it with a fresh one, yes?

I use OB tampons so they only have a bit of plastic around them, not enough to wrap the old one in. I use TP.

Same, love OB. If I travel, I do take a few extra biodegradable dog poop bags with me.

Why are you wrapping your tampon? You can just flush it.

Either way this thread is bizarre and I agree with the poster who said most aren’t wearing disposable pads anymore.

No, you most definitely cannot flush tampons, ever. Are you dumb?

NP here. Yes, you can.

Those five years on septic were longest of my life.

Tampons are absolutely flushable, it says so right on the box.

People are getting hung up on the word “can.” The technically correct answer is that tampons CAN be flushed but they SHOULDN’T be flushed.

I flushed them from my teens through my 40s. (And we always lived in older homes, plus I’ve lived in several countries and traveled to all kinds of places, and it’s never caused any plumbing problems that I knew about.) But, I learned a few years ago that flushing them is a bad idea because the wastewater systems can’t really handle them. So now I’m trying to get in the wastebasket habit.

+1 same

But it grossed me out so much I buckled up and made the switch to reusable cup & disc and it's amazing. Never going back. Still use a pad as back up on my heavy day but it never gets full of blood.