You Can't Stop It - Your Only Hope is to Contain It

Once you get a poopy or pee-y diaper, you have to put it somewhere until you wash it. I use two of these. One is for regular laundry and diaper covers (which get a little poopy, but can be washed with dark colors with no detriment to the laundry). The other is for soiled diapers and the rags I use to wipe baby's butt. (I also don't like wipes - mostly because of the fragrance, but also because of the feel. There's a reason you wash your body with a cotton rag and not a paper towel. Paper, however soft, has never been recommended by anyone to rub on your face. Why use it on baby's butt if you don't have to.) The waste pails have removable plastic liners. I don't use bags. I empty the crappy pail into the wash and sometimes spritz the liner with a little Lysol if it smells really bad. It gets a little damp and funky in there, so I let it air out a little whenever I do the diapers. The pails are about 3 gallons, which is enough to run a small batch of diapers about every other day - which is about as long as you can let that gross stuff hang out in there. There are some opinions about "wet storage" which involves soaking all the stuff in water - but that just sounds nasty - plus you have this 3-5 gallon bucket of water to deal with. The proviso at the moment is that my kid is about 11 weeks old and exclusively breastfed, which makes his poops a lot more manageable than solid food or formula poops. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. You can get a Diaper Genie, but the product has been designed like Gillette razors and consumer-grade vacuums to force you to perpetually purchase disposable, refillable, replaceable bits and pieces on a regular basis. And when you're done with babies, you have a nasty old Diaper Genie. When I'm done with babies, I have two great wastepaper baskets. I'm trying to tackle things in the order they come - but I feel compelled to deal with a part of the Big Carbon Footprint issue - so: up next...The Drying Game!