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A '''sanitary bin''' is a small receptacle for rubbish that is installed in toilet stalls.
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In 2024, the Football Association launched an investigation as to why sanitary bins weren't available in all the women's toilets at the FA Cup Final.<ref>{{Cite news |title=FA launches cup final investigation over women’s toilet without sanitary bin |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/womens-fa-cup-wembley-stadium-sanitary-bin-b2544232.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240608223824/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/womens-fa-cup-wembley-stadium-sanitary-bin-b2544232.html |archive-date=2024-06-08 |access-date=2024-12-15 |work=The Independent |language=en-GB}}</ref>
Background: Disposable menstrual products were an invention in the early twentieth century, but initially there were no specialist waste recptacles to contain them.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=“Feminine Waste Only!!!” A History of the UK Sanitary Bin in the Twentieth Century – Technology's Stories |url=https://www.technologystories.org/feminine-waste-only/ |access-date=2025-01-06 |website=www.technologystories.org |language=en}}</ref> Some public toilets contained small cremators, which incinerated the waste products, but more often there was no provision.<ref name=":0" /> This meant that most people had to flush, hide or carry these products out of the toilets themselves.<ref name=":0" /> The issue of hiding menstrual products was noticeable during the Second World War in England, and the Medical Women’s Federation (MWF) established a 'Menstruation Leaflet Committee' to spread information to counter the issue.<ref name=":0" /> The MWF suggested the process that is recognisable to many today - that each cubicle contains a paper bag for used menstrual products, and a bin for them to be put in.<ref name=":0" />
In New York, USA, in 1952 [[George S. James]] patented a 'sanitary waste disposal bin'.<ref name=":0" /> In 1955, [[Cannon Hygiene]] were the first waste management company to supply sanitary bins, especially as the number of women in the workforce was growing in post-war Britain.<ref name=":0" /> Other companies joined the industry, with PHS and Rentokil offering a 'sanitary unit exchange', where new bins were supplied and the used ones removed, emptied, washed and returned to another location.<ref name=":0" /> Anecdotally, PHS became involved in the industry due to the suggestion made by one of the company secretaries to its owners Alfred and George Tack.<ref name=":0" />
In the United Kigndom in the 1970s, there was expansion in the use of menstrual products, but still an absence of disposal options, especially in public places.<ref name=":0" /> The Women's Environment Network (WEN) raised this as an issue arguing that the huge amounts of waste created additional landfill, as well as air pollution through incineration, challenges to plumbing and water pollution.<ref name=":0" />
A further innovation in sanitary bins came as a response to research commissioned by Rentokil in the United Kingdom in 1980, which stated that over 70% of used menstrual products also had traces of feces and bacteria. This led to the treatment of sanitary bins with bactericides as part of the re-sanitation process throughout the 1980s.<ref name=":0" />
New legislation in the UK in the 1990s meant that employers had a responsibility to provide safe methods for disposal. This meant that by the mid-1990s sanitary bins were common in toilets.<ref name=":0" />
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