Thread: WTF? Who takes dirty baby diapers?

I could see them hoping people are throwing away some valuable personal info type stuff mixed in with the diapers. I know in the past we've cut up/shredded some stuff and when it gets thrown out it gets put in with the cat litter because who is going to want to dig through poop?

Must have been the poop fairy...

Originally Posted by sirjw

no diapers in my trashcans but by the time the garbage trucks come on mondays the only thing left is trash thanks to all the scavengers. I have no problem with them taking the junk and selling it for scrap. I know some will say the city loses revenue from the recyclables but if they are going to go through my garbage i say they can have it.

Btw the city is going to go to a trash can only pick up at the first of the year. I don't know if i really like the idea of having to deal with oversize items not being picked up. What are we supposed to do with those items if the truck wont take them? Like mattresses and such.

1-800-got-junk

Originally Posted by Kingsfan626

You can stick needles into the knot of the diaper bag before you toss it in the can and put a nice note on top of the lid telling them to enjoy your garbage.

maybe angryking can do that. thank goodness, they're only taking my paper trash.
i have some weird fixation on being annoyed/paranoid about it though so i wish they'd stop, but after this thread, it's not so bad, i guess.
it also looks trashy when a bunch of junky pick ups are trash scavenging in the supposedly nice neighborhood i live in. it almost feels like our street turns into a sci fi wasteland for a moment.

the cop i talked to did subtley advise that i throw my dog or baby crap into the recyclable trash to discourage them. clearly, he hasn't encountered the baby poop collectors yet...

Originally Posted by SirJW

No diapers in my trashcans but by the time the garbage trucks come on Mondays the only thing left is trash thanks to all the scavengers. I have no problem with them taking the junk and selling it for scrap. I know some will say the city loses revenue from the recyclables but if they are going to go through my garbage I say they can have it.

BTW the city is going to go to a trash can only pick up at the first of the year. I don't know if I really like the idea of having to deal with oversize items not being picked up. What are we supposed to do with those items if the truck wont take them? Like mattresses and such.

i don't care about the supposed revenue the city is getting from our recyclables because for us, it's none. we usually take the bottles and cans to retrieve the CRV ourselves. they would just take our paper so for a while, i was paranoid about people trying to steal our identity using our names and address from our discarded mail. so i got a shredder, but even then sometimes i worry that i miss something in my haste to trash stuff. heh.
it was so weird... right about the time right before i got the shredder when i noticed our trash getting stolen, i kept getting bills from a local hospital for someone that doesn't reside here but using our address so it made me more paranoid than usual. as soon as i replied to about 3 successive bills saying that person didn't live here and shredding my mail, it stopped.

lunchie, it would be a good time to check your credit history.

It's just weird. I was hoping someone here has had diapers taken, but I guess I'm the lucky winner to have something like this happen to them. I'm hoping it was a one time occurrence but I have a feeling he will be back. I'll try to take photos of the weirdo for entertainment sake.

I say let him have them, the diapers smell bad when they come off a baby. I can only imagine how horrendous the stench is after fermenting in a trash can for a week, especially in this heat.