A Bolton councillor has given her backing to place sanitary bins in men's loos for a very important reason. 

Cancer charity Prostate Cancer UK runs a campaign called 'Boys Need Bins', which aims to get sanitary bins installed in all men's toilets in the UK. 

This is because a common side effect of prostate cancer treatment is incontinence, meaning many sufferers with the disease need to wear incontinence pads. 

Boys Need Bins aims to change UK legislation so that all male toilets nationally have sanitary bins installed. 

Cllr Hilary Fairclough of Astley Bridge will be asking a question at next week's full council meeting to see if Bolton Council would make bins available in all council loos and encourage other organisations and businesses in the town to do the same. 

Cllr Hilary Fairclough of Astley Bridge said: "It is mainly from the prostate cancer charities. 52k men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in the UK every year, and one of the effects of treatment is it makes you incontinent, which is not a lovely prospect. 

"If you are out and about, anyone who is suffering from anything like that, they need somewhere to place their products. 

"Men need to have facilities to safely dispose of those things." 

She added: "My question is to ask the council, in their buildings, to place bins in the toilets.

"In my question I will be asking if they will also consider encouraging clubs, pubs, community centres and leisure spaces to do the same. 

"My father died of prostate cancer, unfortunately for him it was very late and he didn't leave the hospital, so it wasn't an issue in this way. 

"But it is not something that men or women want to discuss. The last thing you want to say is 'I am incontinent', it doesn't go down well with anybody, the person saying it or the person hearing it." 

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