OK, Ill sit on your sofa and ooze blood when it gets full then. :rolleyes:
No unclean persons in SerafinaPekala’s house! And empty your bowels before you come over, too; they know how tricky you are, carrying your waste all over town in your BODY.
And they’re not considering energy usage for the laundry.
It’s stuff like this that makes people throw up their hands and give up on being green because they think it’s just too hard. “Sure, I want to be eco-friendly, but no way I’m giving up toilet paper!” It’s a false dichotomy. A person can be greener about their TP use without resorting to a “family cloth.”
Lets see if I can come up with a program for greening the average American’s TP usage…
- Be mindful of how much you’re using. Don’t use a big wad when a small wad will do.
- Try to ensure the TP comes from eco-friendly sources.
- Use brands/types that are known to be safer for the septic/sewage system
- If the timing is right, finish off cleaning while you shower.
I’m sure there’s more that could be done, but that’s a start. Oh, I forgot one:
- Use the Scott tissue without the cardboard tube in the middle! I don’t know if it’s really more eco-friendly overall than other types, but it’s awesome not to have cardboard tubes filling up the little bathroom garbage cans.
You’re calling Divacups nasty? Bloody wads of cotton sitting in the garbage can are way nastier. You’re just used to the bloody wads so they seem normal.
And WTF is wrong with that woman who wrote that review? Maybe she has a deformed vagina or something, because there is no way that any normal person would have that much trouble dealing with it. I just fold the top a little, squat down a little, jam it in, and give it a little wiggle to be sure it’s unfolded itself. 3 seconds max. Getting it out is even easier. Just bear down a little, grab the stem and yoink.
It makes me laugh that you say they’re “still” using them, like they’re some sort of absurd hippy fad. DivaCups are the neti pots of the vagina. Once you get used to them, the benefits are obvious. I keep a tampon in my purse because my period invariably shows up when I’m at work, and I always get a sinking feeling when I realize I’m going to have to shove a dry clump of rayon up my hoo-ha. I can feel it, it’s more prone to leakage, and it’s gross.
Why would you be emptying it at work or a social situation. It’s not a tampon. It doesn’t need to be changed every 15 minutes.
A. Why would I empty my DivaCup in your bathroom? See above about not needing to change it frequently.
B. If I needed to do it for some reason, I would, and you would never know about it.
Your ignorance is showing, dear. If you don’t want to use a DivaCup, don’t use a DivaCup. But don’t act like you know all about something that you obviously know nothing about.
I have - in very poor sections of Argentina and Costa Rica and in rural Haiti - all in the summer. I’m sure location/culture matters. There were no closable windows just openings in the wall for ventilation, hence the flies (and worse). I never saw a container with a cover in any of the “no flushing paper” areas, simply a plastic bucket beside the commode - even in communal bathrooms. I’m am guy and, trust me, the little boy’s room gets plenty offensive.
No A/C, no electricity, no running water - all these I can get used to. I never got used to the soiled toilet paper bin.
DivaCup itself recommends against doing that.
http://divacup.com/how-it-works/care-and-cleaning/
The quote is at the bottom of the page.
Installed a bidet hose attachment in our bathroom, and now we use very little toilet paper. I also find that it’s quite a pleasant and refreshing experience.
It reads to me like they’re saying if you drop it in the toilet after you’ve used the toilet but before you flush. It doesn’t make sense for the clean toilet water to be bad and the clean sink water to be good when it’s the same water from the same source.
Once the water enters the bowl it’s not clean anymore. Not unless you sterilize it after every use.
Have you ever looked/cleaned under the rim of a toilet, you know, where the fresh water comes from to fill the bowl?
Fair enough, Doug.
But your sink ain’t so clean either, you know.
True, but I assume one would rinse it off under running water, not plug the sink, fill it, and then give it a bath, right? Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have any of the hangups about the cup others have voiced. I’m just 
about the idea of rinsing it off in toilet water.
All of the women in the article mentioned they keep toilet paper on hand for their guests. They don’t insist that they use cloths.
wow, and i was sure the part about rinsing it off in the toilet was a woosh.
The reusable wiping cloth? Or are we back on the care and feeding of your Diva/Luna cup? 
the cup of course, even the poop cloth got to use the washing machine.
Fair enough.
Hey people in the developing world! If you haven’t got the message already, get a cover for your bathroom bin! A cheap Chinese metal plate will do the trick if you really can’t swing it.
Excuse me if I don’t shake your hand.
The more I think about it (thanks, I really needed to be thinking about alternate human waste disopsal systems) this is an issue only in one strata of poor/remote areas. The poorest/most remote most often don’t have running water at all. Human waste is captured in pits, so paper disposal is not an issue. The next strata has some semblance of running water (perhaps a cistern on the roof) but no connection to septic or sewer. When the toilet flushes it empties into a pit dug underneath. Strata next would be those with running water but a less than robust septic/sewer system that cannot handle toilet paper. This is where the toilet side bucket for paper exists. The final strata would be those with running water and robust septic/sewer where paper can be flushed.
Too much analysis.