Our office /shop layout has the rest rooms adjacent to the office space so I
smuggled mine into the mens room, made the change, put the old one in a zip
loc bag and then put it in my work case for disposal at home later. Never
had a problem with the bags leaking or anything like that. I could have
ditched it in the trash can but felt funny doing so. Everyone at work knows
I had the operation, and I assume they know the after effects but I didn't
want to leave my "dirty underwear" out. Some of them do get a little
"odoriferous!" Thursday is my first business trip since before the RRP 11
weeks ago, and I still need the Depends so I'll have to work out a solution
for that. I definitely would NOT flush one! As for a long hike......carry
in-carry out I guess. Watch out for chafing!

Good Luck!

Rick Dorgan

Call Depends (800-558-6423  8-4 Central time) and ask if they're
biodegradable. If so, that would solve the hike disposal issue. At the
office, I would probably put 'em in zip-lock bag and chuck then in the trash
can if I could do it discretely. You know, don't you, that you can
shrink-wrap them by sucking the air out of the ziplock bag as you zip it up?
OK, OK, scrub THAT idea.

I.P.

Plastic zip bags come in all sizes. Go to the grocery store and purchase a
few sizes. Ziploc brand sells a storage bag that is one gallon. It certainly
should hold a full Depend. And yes you can drop the Depend in the bag and
then gently squeeze the bag to remove excess air so you aren't turning the
thing into a huge air pillow.

Take a tip from the females who have been disposing of pads for years. Carry
a brown lunch bag (brown lunch bags also come in different sizes) if you are
wearing a full Depends. You can carry smaller bags if you are just wearing a
pad. (Look in the feminine product area of the grocery or drug store you
should be able to find little bags for disposal of pads. Expect them to have
pink daisies on them not footballs or catchers' mitts.) Put the fresh Depend
undie in the brown lunch bag and carry it to work that way. Take the bag to
the bathroom with you, the fresh undie is concealed. Change Depends and put
the soiled one in the brown bag, fold the top over and drop it in the
trashcan. NEVER flush pads, big or small! The brown bags are much more
environmentally friendly.

Remember that any body fluid is considered a potential biohazard. As long as
someone is not a real biohazard then the disposal of the pad or undie in the
trash in a paper bag should never be a problem.

Most women's pads now come individually wrapped. I don't know how the
Depends pads are packaged. If they are individually wrapped then probably
they can be carefully opened and the old soiled pad slipped into the new
pad's wrapper and disposed of in the trashcan. Nothing extra should be
required.

I'd save the plastic bags for hiking so that you can carry your soiled
products out with you for disposal.
Bev