Time For Disposal-Chapter 2-Spring Cleaning-Snippet 5

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Zoe drives her baby blue and white Manual Side loader across town to a Diaper City government house near the downtown area. It’s an Agency office that temporarily houses subjects, teens and disabled adults that are diapered, that have been removed from the homes that they had lived in.
The Agency is called; Diapered Child Removal Agency or The DCRA for short. At this stop, there were 6 Totes, and 8 over stuffed 32 gallon Rubbermaid trash cans full of wet, loose, unrolled, unwrapped disposable diapers.
Tote one has nothing but formerly wet and semi-wet pre-fold cloth diapers at the bottom, then plastic pants that went with them on top of those, then the other half has loose, Pampers Rash Care diapers in size 8, a new size, 40 loose, Tranquility Large sized adult disposable diapers that have 6 slightly wet Dignity Naturals booster pads in them.
Tote two, has a disabled 15 year old, wearing VERY thick Tranquility All-Through-The-Night Youth Sized diapers with Six Dignity Naturals Booster Pads inside, Six Toddler sized, ex-diaper-service cloth diapers layered in on top of the booster pads. Half a bottle’s worth of corn starch baby powder sprinkled into the diaper too.
He has been in the tote, outside, since Thursday of the week before. There are also some half full baby bottles with milk, grape juice, apple juice and water in them. The boy’s diaper bag was also put into the tote along with his three 32 gallon Rubbermaid trash cans, over stuffed with his loose, unrolled, unwrapped disposable diapers.
There are two printed single bed comforters, unfolded and sprawled across the three 32 gallon trash cans. Sitting next to the tote the 15 year old boy is in, are three 32 gallon sized laundry baskets with the boy’s 20 onesies at the bottom, his 20 pair of plastic lined shorts (Used over cloth diapers-a plastic pant and short, All-In-One) his 22 pair of formerly wet, stiff, dried-up cloth training pants (they had been used to keep his cloth diapers on instead of pins) and the third basket had his two sock monkeys that his mother had made for him, the Huggies dolls with an actual Huggies disposable diaper on it (that was the size of a four year old) a plush tiger, and all of the unused packages of disposable diapers that were purchased for the boy, but were never used.
As Zoe Pulls up to the front, two men in suits, ties, wearing dark sunglasses, each carrying a diapered baby, come out of the agency. They are followed by two nurses, carrying one 32 gallon trash can full of each baby’s diapers. Can one has still semi-wet cloth diapers in the bottom half and two dozen folded, clean cloth diapers and the various colored plastic pants that were used on that baby. The second can has ¾ of the can full of loose, wet, Store brand disposable diapers in it and the left-over, unused packages and portions of packages of the store brand disposable diapers.
The first baby boy, was a 12 year old boy, who was SO developmentally delayed, he was chronologically 6 months old. He can’t talk, walk, and crawl. The second baby, that was being escorted to the side of the truck’s hopper also, was another baby boy….this one was 13 years old. He’s wearing a REALLY thick, freshly changed, disposable diaper with eight Dignity Naturals Booster Pads all layered into the inner leak gathers and then there are six clean toddler sized cloth diapers layered into the diaper too.(Three in back and three in front. All six diapers stick out of the diaper at the back waist and the front waist about an inch.) That baby’s diaper is SO thick, the boy’s butt looks VERY puffy and he can barely walk. 12 year old boy who can’t walk, talk or crawl, is wearing a really thick diaper. JUST like the 13 year old is. The man is cradling the boy, standing next to the hopper, waiting for Zoe to take him. The other man in the suit and tie, is also standing right behind the first one, holding the 13 year old’s left hand, waiting for Zoe to take him.
The Nurses set the Rubbermaid trash cans down next to Tote two and then go back into the agency’s office.
Zoe gets out of the truck and resets the hopper. Zoe dumps tote 1 spilling the diapers into the truck, greeting the waiting men as she does so. After the tote is dumped Zoe takes the 12 year old from the man and puts him in the hopper on top of the dirty diapers.
Zoe then reaches down and grabs the hand of the 13 year old. “Are you ready to go for a ride in my truck?” Zoe says. The boy just looks at her in silence. Zoe leads the boy to the truck, then picks him up from behind and lifts him into the hopper. Zoe lets him go. He falls down, landing on the diapers next to the other boy.
Next, Zoe dumps the 2 cans, left by the nurses, on top of the 2 boys. Zoe dumps 2 of the 32 gallon cans then runs the packer. The blade pushes the trash into the truck. The developmentally disabled boy just rolls around like one of the discarded diapers as he is crushed into the truck. Zoe dumps the remaining 4, 32 gallon totes tossing in the comforters as well, before hooking up tote 2.
Zoe dumps the tote, spilling the 15 year old, into the truck along with his bottles and diaper bag. “Wow!! You sure are ripe” Zoe says, as the smell coming from his diaper is strong, since he has been out in the trash for several days now. Zoe dumps the laundry baskets with the boys stuff and runs the packer again. After the packer did the load, Zoe dumps the 4 remaining totes, then runs the pre-crusher and packs the load.
With the 3 boys and the diapers packed away, Zoe heads off to the next stop.
At the next stop, another baby and diaper disposal daycare, there are six totes and five force-flex white trash bags laying next to the totes on the grass at the curb.
Two of the bags have nothing but disposable pull-ups, both boys and girls, but they are ONLY wet.
The second bag has a large hole in the bottom of it and several tears in the side of it. This bag contains nothing but all-in-one cloth diapers and both folded, washed and clean pre-fold cloth diapers and formerly wet cloth diapers in it. There are several of the formerly wet cloth diapers scattered near the bag. They fell out during the time the bag was being brought out to the curb. There are at least two dozen cloth diapers loose near the bag, on the ground, scattered about near the pile of bags.
The third bag has nothing but mixed disposable diapers and a baby boy, wearing a nice, thick, Molicare disposable diaper that is purple. The boy’s diaper has 8 layered toddler sized , former diaper service cloth diapers in it, that also have a TON of baby powder in it too. The bag the boy is in, has leg holes punched out in both corners and the boy’s head is sticking out of the bag which is also full of loose, unwrapped, unrolled, thick Tranquility All-Through-The-Night diapers, two packages worth of ONLY wet Molicare disposable diapers, and six of the boy’s onesies, two dozen of the boy’s formerly wet cloth diapers sitting on his lap, and three packs worth of wet only Pampers diapers that had been modified to fit the boy.
The boy is 24 years old but is so developmentally delayed, he acts like he is two. He’d been in diapers since he was born. He can’t talk well, he can’t walk, and the bag he is in, has some serious rips in the bottom from dragging it to the curb. Diapers are falling out of it and some of the open disposable diapers were laying there near the hole in the bag. The boy had one of the modified cloth diapers on with eight unmodified toddler sized cloth diapers on under the tall modified cloth diaper that was also sticking out of the small/medium Molicare disposable diaper.
His disposable was wet as well as all of the cloth diapers he had on. The Cloth Diapers looked relatively new…still.
“Now, we’ve never disposed of any kids before….do the kids need to wear only disposable diapers when being disposed of or can they be disposed of in cloth diapers?” Asks the mother to Zoe. Zoe gets out of the truck, and takes the boys hand.
“Either works fine. Most parents use disposables.” States Zoe to the mother as she escorts the soaking wet diapered boy into the side of the hopper where she makes him wait.
Zoe empties the basket, sets it aside for the father, then she takes the boy’s hand who had been waiting by the side of the truck and she dumps him in. Zoe dumps tote one and two, filling up the hopper with wet disposables and cloth diapers. Zoe runs the packer to make room for the other 2 totes. Zoe empties 2 of the remaining totes, one with cloth diapers, and one with disposables before hooking up the tote with the 22 year old girl. The girl, spills, out of the tote and into the hopper with the dirty diapers.
Zoe dumps tote 6, then runs the packer. As the packer runs, Zoe hooks up the 1st tote with the disposables, then dumps it in, spilling wet and messy diapers onto the load currently being crushed. The girl is covered with the dirty diapers as the blade pushes them and her into the truck. Zoe dumps the remaining 3 totes and then runs another cycle.
Next Zoe tackles the force flex bags. Zoe tosses the 2 with the pull-ups into the hopper.
Zoe grabs the torn bag and tosses it, as well as the spilled diapers into the truck. Zoe looks over to the mom “I will need help loading the 24 year old. He is over the weight limit for bagged trash.” Says Zoe to the mother.
“Ok, Here......my little one.....come with mommy. Says the 24 year old’s mother, picking the bag up and carrying it towards the tote. The mother struggles with the bag.
Zoe tips over an empty tote. “Get your boy into the tote, so I can dump him in the truck” Suggests Zoe to the mother. Zoe helps the mother, roll the bag into the tote. The mother lifts the bag into the tote. the bag falls into the tote. Once the bag is in the tote, Zoe tips the tote back up and hooks it to the truck. Zoe flips it to dump the boy. Zoe tosses the remaining bag and empties the final 4 cans filling up the hopper. Zoe runs the pre-crusher, flattening the boy and the diapers into the hopper so the blade can pack them in. As the stop is loaded, Zoe tells the mother, “if the father is going to bring anything else out, its now or next week.” "No ma'am I have everything out that needs to go.....states the father. “Ok then, have a great day.” Zoe gets into the cab and heads off.
Zoe drives to the next stop, it's a diaper service. The diaper service is located in an industrial side of diaper city. They have 8 totes and six 32 gallon trash cans, all full of various sizes of cloth diapers. 50 % of the cloth diapers in the totes and each tote, are formerly wet. inside of the totes, there are also 200 plastic pants, and all-in-one cloth diapers too. Tote one has a baby boy wearing 8 pre-fold cloth diapers that have some rips and tears in them...the surfaces of the soaker pads are hanging down between the boy's legs. He is not wearing any plastic pants either. Tote two has cloth diapers that are also ripped, half of the toddler sized cloth diapers are formerly wet, and the other top half are freshly cleaned and unfolded. The rest of the totes have half clean pre-folds and clean and formerly wet all-in-one cloth diapers that are half wet and half cleaned.
The 32 gallon trash cans, have plastic pants, onesies, old under shirts, white, slightly stained from being peed on and plastic pants too. There is also another baby boy, tied to can 5, wearing clean, very torn up cloth pre-fold diapers. There are places in his cloth diapers that Zoe can see right through. The front part of that boy's diaper, has holes that go right through, at the right top wing and soaker pads. The boy is tied to the carry handles with zip-ties. Zoe gets out of the truck and begins emptying the totes. Zoe dumps tote 1, spilling out the cloth diapers. Then Zoe grabs the tote with the baby boy. Zoe dumps the boy into the hopper on top of the other cloth diapers and then grabs tote 3. The boy's cloth diapers get snagged in a burr on the packer near the center. Zoe pulls the boy loose ripping his diaper a little more. While tote 3 is emptying, Zoe notices the boy emptying his bladder as there are no plastic pants. The pee drips from his cloth diaper onto the other diapers in the truck. “Good thing there are so many diapers in there, little tinkler, you are getting pee everywhere. Says Zoe to the boy in the hopper wearing nothing but layered cloth diapers. “I can't help it!” Said the boy to Zoe.
“It’s ok little one, this is a garbage truck. No need to keep it clean. you can go potty as often as you want. I need to crush you now, so it is going to get a little tight.” Adds Zoe to the boy. Zoe pushes the button to start the packer. The boy had been leaning against the packer. The packer pushes him down, as it expands, sending him into the holding area head first. The pressure wrings out his soaked diaper dripping pee everywhere.
The boy gets all of the open disposable diapers and cloth diapers, shoved into his face.
“That will leave a bad taste in his mouth” Zoe thinks as the boy disappears into the truck.
The boy’s wet cloth diapers get lots and lots of cloth diapers crushed against his diapers that bunch up between his legs. As the cycle finishes Zoe dumps tote 4 when approach the 5th with the boy tied to it.
“Try to run away?” Zoe asks him. “No....I was just being put into my crib after the diaper lady finished testing me and the diapers I was wearing. I had to be tied up when the diapers and I went through this machine she put me through, before she disposed of all of these diapers and I. Stated the boy. “Ok” says Zoe. Zoe then dumps tote 5, then goes to can 5. “Ok little one, are you ready to get in my truck?” Asked Zoe to the boy, still tied to the carry handles of the 32 gallon trash can. “Nah, I really don't want to....but, the diaper lady told me that it was time to dispose of me...and all of these diapers. she was a MEAN lady too! She would tear cloth diapers, she'd put me in wet diapers...and she’d keep me in soaking wet diapers for a long time before she even would let her staff rinse me and the diapers I was wearing! “I’m afraid she was right! I AM here to take you to the landfill. At least you will be away from the mean lady.” Explained Zoe to the wet, thickly cloth diapered boy. “Ok....well, then, I'll walk over and climb in....don't worry about my hands and arms.” States the boy. “I will walk you over and give you a lift so you don’t get stuck.” States Zoe taking the boy by the hand and escorting him over to the side of the truck, then helping him in.
The boy walks with Zoe, over to the hopper. Zoe cuts him loose, walks him to the hopper, where she gives him a boost. “Thanks” Says the boy to Zoe. The boy does a summersault into the middle of the hopper. He climbs in, but his diapers get snagged on the side of the hopper, ripping the front of his diaper along one of the soaker pad lines. His diaper sags down a little bit, the pins can no longer hold the good fit. Zoe grabs a reasonably dry all-in-one cloth diaper. “Lay down, little one.” Zoe tells the boy in the hopper. Zoe takes off the saggy diaper, and puts the boy, into the all-in-one. “Miss....that diaper I wore during one of the lady's fabric tests...I wet in it and then she took it off and tossed it into the trash, thanks.” Stated the boy. “You’re welcome.” States Zoe to the boy. Zoe dumps the can he was tied to, in the truck and then empties the remaining cans. The boy is covered in the hopper, but Zoe can still see his face. Zoe dumps the rest of the cans, then tells the boy;
“I need to run the packer now. You will spend the rest of the trip to the landfill, in the holding area.” Explains Zoe to the boy.
“Is it going to make my diaper bunch up? This diaper sags a BUNCH down here around my legs! The boy asks Zoe. “Yes it will. There are diapers all around you, so you will be in one giant diaper.” Explains Zoe to the boy in the hopper.
“Ok then...let it rip!” States the boy to Zoe. Zoe presses the button, activating the packer.
The boy's diapers all around him, begin to bunch up, roll and some get caught in the cracks and snagged by the packer. The boy goes into the holding area....and is pressed against all of the other trash in there. A few of the pre-fold diapers that were snagged, are dragged back into the hopper. The blade retracts as Zoe gets back in the cab for the next stop.