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USE OF GARDEN INCINERATORS

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cobden28 Sun 30-Nov-25 09:42:29

i live in a first floor flat with own private garden. I also shop online a lot so often fill up my green recycle bin with packaging well before it;s due to be emptied every fortnight. I also have to wear a incontinence pad 24/7 and these, enclosed in nappy sacks, take up a lot of room in my black wheely bin which is emptied weekly. In addition I have two cats so four litter trays which I empty daily - again making for a lot of smelly rubbish being put out for disposal.

My problem is that I often have more rubbish for disposal than the council are prepared to collect on the due dates, so I'm considering buying a metal garden incinertor bin to burn anything burnable that there's no room for in the main bins. Is it possible to dispose of incontinence pads by burning in a garden incinarator?

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Astitchintime Sun 30-Nov-25 09:46:21

Why aren’t your local council supplying you with a clinical waste bin for your incontinence pads?

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CariadAgain Sun 30-Nov-25 09:46:34

Don't they have plastic bits on them? Someone else could answer better than me on that - but I think they do.

I found it's both health hazard and not allowed by law to burn plastic back when a particularly awful neighbour set up a fire - on our communal ground!!!!! - and it included plastic. Cue for when then drove off and left it!! for me putting it out and removing the plastic quick sharp.

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CariadAgain Sun 30-Nov-25 09:49:51

Astitchintime

Why aren’t your local council supplying you with a clinical waste bin for your incontinence pads?

Maybe/maybe not as to whether the Council will supply clinical waste bin. This is something I was never aware of until moving to where I am now - and there are a noticeable number of people here disposing of clinical waste and the coloured plastic bags they are given for that are just left sitting out and not in any type of container.

But maybe yours is a Council that does supply clinical waste bin for them - and so worth asking to see if they do.

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cornergran Sun 30-Nov-25 10:12:14

Worth asking your council about clinical waste. Here it’s a yellow bin or yellow bags, they are collected on a different day to the general non recyclable or recycling bins.

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