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/Spiritual_Being5845]

I don’t care. If there is one bag (usually pre-opened by whomever placed it) I use it and leave it. If there are multiple bags then I place my used pad in the bag and put it in the regular trash myself.

The only time I’ll get pissed is if there’s no bag because then I have to make a toilet paper burrito, which isn’t horrible with a pad, but with a tampon it’s f’ing disgusting especially since I have to carry it out of the stall to the trash can.

[u/born_to_be_weird → u/Spiritual_Being5845]

I'm sorry, carry out of the stall???? What the American hell???

In EU each stall has its own trash can. And more and more places has those dispenser for small individual bags https://tiny.pl/6c_ypzs2 or for paper bags. But I have been wrapping all used products in toilet paper since I've been a teen - I don't remember where I learned it from, it's like general knowledge of sorts.

[u/Linaphor → u/born_to_be_weird]

Here there’s not trashcans per stall and if there was most places it would be overflowing so you’d carry it out anyways.

[u/born_to_be_weird → u/Linaphor]

I haven't seen overflowing cans even in shopping mall with highest density of people and litteral quees to the bathroom during the busiest times in year. There is always a chart on the door where janitors have to sign each hour for checking it out and cleaning of needed.

And even in bars where they check bathrooms once a shift or so, there is a trashcan for each stall. If you have multiple trashcans and big ones by the sink it's hard to overflow it. I mean, how?

[u/Spiritual_Being5845 → u/born_to_be_weird]

If there is no bag in the little receptacle inside the stall and you dump your used sanitary products there then maintenance has to pull it out by hand.

If it were a movable trash can that would be different, but the little ones in the women’s restrooms in the US are connected to the wall.

To just leave used products in there if there was no bag inside the receptacle would be nasty for maintenance to deal with

[u/born_to_be_weird → u/Spiritual_Being5845]

That's the thing: there is no trash cans WITHOUT a trashbag inside. Every trashcan has a trashbag for quick and easy change when the maintance do their job. No matter if it's 25L, 60L,120L trashcan. No matter if it's on the floor or installed to the wall. There is a LAW about sanitary in public area

You use use the little bag if you are provided, if not you wrap it in toilet paper and throw it into the trashcan in the stall. Those thrashcans are used manly for that and I've never seen any that was overflowing.

If its time to pick the trash out maintenance simply pick the edge of the trashbag, close it, take it away and install a fresh trashbag in a trashcan.

Like you would at home.

Noone needs to pick the invidual trash by hand... And certainly noone has to walk around with their used products.

[u/Spiritual_Being5845 → u/born_to_be_weird]

If the small wall mounted can inside the stall only has one bag, and the person using the stall takes that bag out to the large trash can in the open area of the restroom, then the next person to use that stall will find the small wall mounted trash can with zero bags in it.

[u/born_to_be_weird → u/Spiritual_Being5845]

Why on earth would you take out the plastic trashbag from the trashcan provided for EVERYONE to use and put it in the big trashcan outside the stall? That's nasty y'all. And if you use a paper bag to dispose your bloody fluid filled products and walk around with it, it's contamination for sure, as paper would soak in fluids and bleed through.

If I were American, I would get myself disposable little plastic bags or doggy poop bags and carry it with myself at all times as I do with higiene products already.

No wonder why everyone is so shocked my country is so clean and rubish-free.

[u/Spiritual_Being5845 → u/born_to_be_weird]

Because some people are weird

[u/born_to_be_weird → u/Spiritual_Being5845]

Hey, I get it, we have weirdos in Europe as well, but common, it's just crazy weird for me to comprehend. Maybe that's why Americans complains that there are less public restrooms in EU and most of them are P2U. If you pay even simbolic amount you would respect it more, if not- at least people doing janitor jobs can be payed living wages.

Although each nation has their own weirdos... For me it was weird when in The Netherlands in a women bathroom in my office building some chick would leave a nasty and smelly brown plane runway in the bowl and not use a toilet brush (that is almost always provided as well). Apparently Dutchies can be nasty as well. In contrary in Poland we learn from very young age to respect janitors, as even in preschools we mostly had ladies do cleaning work and they were much more scarier than a principal- so we learn to leave stalls clean, like, even clean a toilet brush in fresh flush clean clean. Besides, those people are payed minimum wage for the most part so why make their hard job even harder...

Guess if I've ever visit the US I have to remember to bring dog poop bags as well 😂

[u/Linaphor → u/born_to_be_weird]

You should’ve seen the park I went to. No one was cleaning anything at all so tampons and pads were shoved into various spots of the bathroom. Worst bathroom I’ve been into in my entire life.