OP, I don't know what it is that you read, but most people I've read that have tried g diapers and cloth say that g diapers take the bad of both cloth and disposable. They end up being more difficult than either.
And I can tell you, except for the rotavirus weeks (DS had it twice), cloth was easy peasy breezy. Especially when I made it even less complicated and used simple green and washing soda for the laundering of them.
Sorry, but I couldn't stand having stinky diapers sitting around my house. I don't care what anyone thinks, I can instantly tell walking into someone's house if they use cloth diapers, yuck.
I know that except for when I was being complicated with my wash routine, pre stripping of the dipes and going forth with simple stuff, my apartment never smelled of diapers. And I didn't even rinse them.
That said, the friends that said just what you said, that they couldn't stand having diapers sitting in their house, ALL, to a one, got the "diaper genie", which, as you may know, allows you to sausage many dirty diapers altogether so you don't have to take the garbage out all the time.
And that, I can tell you, STANK.
Not really, this is exactly what my mom did with my brother's dirty diapers 40 years ago-the house still stinks no matter what you think. It's the urine smell that is bad.
If there's urine smell coming from the dipes, that's not normal. It's a problem. Tell your friends that they need to strip the diapers. Then it won't be a problem.
OP, the Pampers website (and some Huggies newborn diapers that were sent to me as unwanted samples) states clearly that you need to do the exact same thing that you would do with cloth...and then throw them away. So you're only skipping the washing/drying/BEST BABY JOB EVER OTHER THAN NURSING AND CUDDLING = folding all the sweet diapers steps.
Waste removal
As the Pampers bag recommends, you'll want to dump bowel movements in the toilet. Then just roll the diaper into its backsheet, using the tape or fasteners to keep it closed, and dispose of it in the trash.
ETA: The reason for that is so that sewage goes into the sewage system. So that it goes into the water that is treated and cleansed. Otherwise, the waste sits in the landfills, slowly making its way to the groundwater, which is not going to be cleansed. And since waste can contain disease, especially when kids are vaccinated with the shedding vaccines (polio sheds in poop, etc), you WANT that waste to be properly disposed of.
By the way, bleach? Yikes! I used cloth to AVOID the bleach...I'm very allergic.
