This puzzles me............?

I am sorry if this is a bit too much information but by mistake, I recently dropped a smallish panty liner in a sink of water and when I realised what I had done I couldn't believe the size that it had grown to - it was huge!! So definitely don't flush them down the loo - I wrap in toilet paper and put in the bathroom bin.

So am I!

I'm gobsmacked at people saying they put snotty paper hankies in the recycling.

Only toilet paper down the lavatory.
Only clean paper in the recycling.
Used tissues, soiled paper and pads in a bag in the bin.
I had enough of washing slimy handkerchiefs and bloody cloths when I was a teen ages and all these paper products weren’t invented.

Run hot water and wash your face with it. Look up sinus massage or sinus drainage videos and do those. Blow your nose into the sink with water on to save tissues.

I take Sudafed capsules until I'm sure the runny nose has gone - all that dripping drives me crazy. No tissues needed.

grandtante, if you use the council food composting scheme it's all super-heated to sterilise it.

Surely if you put used tissues in the compost, the germs will just spread?

As a teacher I asked children with colds to put their used tissues in a plastic bag and close it firmly with the kind of metal strip used to close bread bags, then throw the full bag in the waste bin.

Most cold germs are, I believe air-borne.

Vic Vapour only works if you are not allergic to it! I can't be anywhere near it, cold or no cold.

Rub Vic Vapour rub into your chest and put a little bit underneath your nose/top lip it will then stop running and you won’t need any tissues, drink plenty of fluids. Get well soon.

Call me unfeeling about the environment...but when I have a cold I really don't think about where the Kleenex goes?

I had to spend a considerable amount of money getting drains replaced because people living in my house flushed tissues down the loo. Bin or burn

nanamac77 you can't put used tissues in with normal recycling! It will cause them to have to discard an entire truckload of recycling materials. Only clean stuff must go into recycling. Or did you mean in the food bin?

Mine go in the recycling bin

You might be able to put the tissues in the green food bin. My council allows paper kitchen towels. Ask your council. If they say its ok they will be composted with the food and become useful again

We use our log burner too. They don't recycle / compost very well. Gave up years ago with that.

Never ever put them down the loo. Septic tanks / Treatment Plants do not like them. We have big notices on our loos as we have macerators fitted: "Human waste and toilet paper only please"

Do you have an open fire or wood burner? I always burn used tissues if I have a cold bad enough to need a lot of them.

In the bin. Think how much water you are using when you flush the loo.

Always thought only loo paper to go down toilet
Tissues are bigger, thicker so may be harder to navigate the sewage pipes. In the bin for me. Haven't used a cloth hanky for decades. Carrying all those snotty germs about then allowing them free reign when bringing the snotty cloth out again, no thank you. Unless of course its single use cloths; soaked in bleach solution and then all washed together in one load.

Definitely the bin for tissues.

I think hankies are much kinder to your nose when it is sore

Bradford Lass - put tissues out for recycling? I assume that you reckon whatever bugs have been caught on them will no longer be live?
How nice for the workers at your local recycling centre to be confronted with a load of either crusty tissues or ones full of snot !
Bin them !

In the wood burner for me!

As others have said don’t put the down the loo. I use a little disposable bag I put my Tena Lady in when I have a cold. Nappy sacks are just as good

When I have a cold I keep a plastic bag with me and put my tissues in there, tie the bag at the end of the day and put in bin. Just putting in the bin surely the germs will be free to spread.

Sorry forgot to add, it's something to do with such paper being made of short fibres so can't stand up to the recycling process