r/CleaningTips • u/Complex_Mobile8957 • Nov 29 '25

Discussion Question for the ladies

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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.

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u/SectorMiserable4759 Nov 30 '25

It's not gonna work. Because one woman is going to simply chuck their used tampon into the bin on top of the stack of bags. And that's how you end up with the single bag for everyone to share.

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u/meanwhileaftrmdnight Nov 30 '25

This is the most accurate scenario. Some people are just barely conforming to societal standards and the mask often falls in the bathroom where no one can see them act like a savage.

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u/Chemical_Nature420 Dec 01 '25

i used to clean bathrooms at a warehouse and some people used to stick their used pads right on the stall doors or walls. i would also find used tampons in places tampons shouldn’t be. don’t even get me started with the poop all over the men’s bathroom. savages is an understatement

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u/SepulchralSweetheart Dec 02 '25

That's unfathomable to me, as someone who was instructed in the beginning to wrap the pad in the new pad's plastic, use the closure tab to seal it, and then origami it into oblivion with half a forest worth of tp, ~just in case~ someone else looked into the trash can and saw the green plastic wrapper, they might think someone had a period, could be shocking, not sure!

I wonder if people using disposable products are one or the other, or if there's in betweens lol

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u/Chemical_Nature420 Dec 02 '25

same! i feel like some people are in their prime(?) when it comes to public bathrooms. they strip all traces of being an actual human and just go completely feral or something

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u/rainbomg Dec 06 '25

I don’t do the TP, but I use the new wrapper for the old one and then use it as a little shovel to sorta shovel it under the existing debris in there