Recycle

I wanted to throw this out there. What do you guys do with your disposable enemas, bags and douches? Do you put them in the recycle bin?

Yes, I throw them in the recylcle bin in a bag.

I'm good about recycling, but have never taken time to separate the Fleet bottle in those few occasions that I use them. I put the flattened bottle back in the box and throw the box in with garbage. Reason for this is that I'm almost always traveling when using a disposable...when home, I use a bag.

Paper and Aluminum I ALWAYS recycle. Plastic quite literally takes more fossil fuel to recycle than it does to make from scratch. There is only so much you can do with recycled plastic. Then there is the issue of bacteria. Throw Fleet bottles away!! Mine go in the regular trash.

I place them in black plastic trash bags and place the bag in the regular trash.

You should but you don't NEED to recycle EVERY LITTLE THING. If privacy is a concern for you (like it is for me), put it in a black trash bag like one member said and throw it away. Neighbours are nosy, ESPECIALLY in a small city or town.

I also make sure to put it away from the outside edge of the trash bag, so you can't see it when the bag is sitting at the curb.

Where I live and the service I have you just use one bin for everything. They separate it for you. I'm not lazy but I don't want more than one bin in front of my home on trash days. Some companies have two bins and two separate days for the trash and recycle. I never use disposable enemas or douches. But I lived in a duplex once that had the two bins. You can learn a lot about a neighbor even by mistake. My neighbor at the time was a single, slim pretty soccer player. I went to throw the trash out and when I opened the recycle bin to throw my water bottles away there was a lot of empty disposable enemas and douches she had thrown out. I mean they were on top of the other plastic bottles and such in a trash bag that was not closed. There was feces on a lot of the nozzles which made me think about this as well. So I researched it and came to the conclusion that all of that is separated, cut up and melted at such a temperature it would probably make it safe. But who knows. It's not like everyone has a biohazard bin as well. So that is a great question.

Here in uk 75percent of rubbish is recycled now all plastics glass paper card by 2020 needs to be at 95%

The reason I mentioned that my neighbor was a female was because I don't think she was shy about it because I was a female also. So she wasn't trying to hide anything. Maybe if I had been married or a man she would have used black trash bags or something.

I don't recycle that stuff, it's just to much to let someone else know that's not into it.

We live in a wooded area and our trash gets collected in the middle of the night, usually between 2-4 AM and the carter comes up our driveway to get it. I don't use disposable enemas or douches so that isn't a concern for me, but if I want to throw something out that I don't want anyone to see (worn out enema balloon nozzles, dead, dismembered submissives or hacked off body parts 😁 ) I place them in black bags and take it out of the garage very late at night.

I'm a pretty serious recycler of glass, metal, plastic and paper.

In Belgium there are different collects for household waste

branches of trees or grass or hedges (can be used to make compost) / paper / glass / plastics / metal

some cities have a special collect for food waste and old food used to make methan gas.

Here in Atlanta we have separate bins for garbage and recycling. They are the large wheeled type of containers that have fold down lids and are attached to the back of trucks which lift them and empty them. (btw, our trash containers are nicknamed "Herbie the curbie") The sanitation workers do this very fast and rarely look inside as they wheel them from the curb to the back of the truck..Even so , if I'm throwing out something I don't want seen, i make sure to place it in the middle of the container , covered both below and on top with other trash or recyclables. As far as getting rid of disposable fleet type enemas goes, I separate the screw top nozzle from the empty bottle and place the bottle in the recycling bin and the nozzle into the trash bin . I just don't feel comfortable recycling something that might be a bio hazard. LOL

Generally most recycling does not take "medical waste" it is separated and burned.

Whether it's Fleet bottles, disposable bag and catheter like those used in a Barium Enema, an insulin syringe, or even a used disposable douche, the reality, as both a legal and practical matter is that it is considered medical waste, and is therefore NOT eligible for recycling Any recycler that finds out it's there is supposed to reject the ENTIRE bag or bin. It's ALL then considered medical waste and is required to be burned!!

Plastic is so limited in terms of what you can make from recycled plastic and the market for recycled plastic products so small that this is a battle NOT WORTH FIGHTING!! Put them in black or green trash bags, or if you have only the white ones, put that stuff towards the middle so it can't be seen through the white plastic, and put it out with the regular trash. You can't save the world by yourself. Focus your recycling efforts on things like paper and aluminum that are VERY recycleable and where recycled product has a significant market!!

Obviously someone has little understanding of the recycled plastics industry & it relationship to human endeavour, let alone its very well known viability in providing a vast array of products.....that second life....both from a commercial & domestic perspective......Recycling plastics is one of the most important contributions we as a species can make in reducing the damage caused by our very own reliance upon....It's of growing importance & duty to be aware the environmental degradation of the planet through plastics contamination.

Such statements like this are why organizations like Greenpeace,WTO,WWF & independent Oceanographic organizations continue to expend considerable sums annually alerting humanity to the benefits of recycling plastics by producing informative documentaries that clearly demonstrate mankinds destructive nature through thoughtlessness.....I would suggest to the poster to investigate the damage wrought upon innocent sea creatures because of attitudes such as this...Let alone the cost retrieving these animals in the hope of saving their lives.....AWARENESS

Same applies to glass,metals,paper (its derivatives) & rubber....I find it difficult to believe such ignorance & complacency exists.