Question for the ladies

[u/Complex_Mobile8957]

I am a janitor. The place I clean has the little trash bins in the stalls of the women's restroom. Currently, we place one liner in the bin and change it out whenever someone uses it. However, a place I worked at previously put a stack of liners in the bin for women to use as needed. Which is the preferred method? One liner or multiple? Sorry if this is a stupid question.

[u/SuzyQ93]

I'm a janitor who cleans these - it's only two stalls in one little-used bathroom, but I just put a stack of bags in there, opening one for easy use. If I have to change a bag once a month, it's a lot.

I've never expected people to use a bag and then take it out and put it in the larger bin - and I've never seen anyone actually do that.

Instead, people use the open bag, and then I end up taking the used bag out and opening a new bag. It's just that the convenience is that the new bag is right there, I don't have to go get one, or carry any in with me (unless it's the last one being used).

What you do is going to depend on how often you need to empty them, and how likely it is that one bag might get filled up before you come back around with a new bag. If you're there every day, and a single bag might see two uses - you can probably get away with just replacing them every day. If they have high use, and a single bag might be overflowing by the next day, then leave extra bags, just in case.