Orphaned feminine products "trash"

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I live in section 8 housing in California. The off-site manager called me at the office on Saturday to ask me if I had let my 12 year-old son take out the trash and to tell me that a "used kotex" had been found between the apartment doors directly below me. She told me that neither of the ladies below would touch it and that flies were teeming around it. She had already asked the neighbor if she was menstruating and then asked the neighbor if she knew if I was. She said she knew the 14 year old daughter of the neighbor was not since she is pregnant.
The neighbor replied that she had just finished her cycle, but thought that I might be on mine. She added that she did not use napkins--only tampons.
I called home to see if my son could tell me what was going on. He was not there. I called the manager back and said that in light of the problems I had been having lately at the complex (it's a long story of business dealings gone awry and a suit I have filed against the resident manager's boyfriend), I would leave the office and go to the complex and pick it up, although I used neither of the aforementioned methods of feminine protection.
When I arrived at the specified location, I found a small pantyliner (maybe 2"x4") neatly rolled into a cylinder about the diameter of my little finger. The plastic and adhesive strip were exposed. I picked it up and saved it in a plastic baggie which I plan to deliver to the off-site manager tomorrow for her perusal.
I am a clean tenant who takes pride in her surroundings. I routinely pick up soiled diapers and wash down areas of vomit where neighbors' guests have had too much to drink the night before. There have been several times I feel my privacy has been invaded, but this is the worst. Does the landlord have the right to demand to know when her tenants cycle? Is there recourse for this? The situation just seems to be getting worse as time goes on.

 

[intellectualhonesty]

I am not an attorney but I would think that any trash.....any trash at all.....people throw strange things away....and people throw normal things away.....normal things to throw away are tampax, kotex...panty liners and period things and sexual things condoms...birthcontrol creams and applicators....used and discarded.....bloodsoaked garments...underwear....things from babies....things from a bad night things from a good night....you get my drift. Even things that are not normal things to throw away such as illegal drugs, used hypodermic needles even ones that are used folegal medication can be thrown away without too much fear that someone would get hurt from them. The thing that people worry about these days are if someone got a hold of bad trash.....and died from Aids or a baby injested the bad trash....I suppose handling bloodsoaked kotex or tampons is not something people would handle without gloves. I suppose that hypodermic needles should not be sticking out of trash so that a passerby would run into....and get stabbed. Other than that.....we could write a law....absolutely first glance into the twenty first century law that specifically states....the proper care to take when throwing away bad trash...ie needles blood and medical waist. I think someone who is an attorney is probably working on that as we speak. The plastic bag....means of disposal has flaws ...Bags can rip little kids could eat ....Now it would seem to me that your trash is normal trash and other people seeing this kind of thing....is not new. Happens all the time.....your landlord does not have the right to trace fallen normal trash to you or anyone. Landlords and neighbors pick stuff up for eachother all the time. normal stuff that is....tampax and pads are what I consider normal. I am concerned that you are being used over there as the thowup picker upper....waist picker upper person....and as a friend ...I think that is nonsense. So....put your foot down.....and say.....Look I pick up my share of normal trash around here. I even pick up bad trash every once in a while....carefully .... and I think everyone should....carefully but reasonably....everyone should.....but I should not be called from work anymore to do it. When you see it ... the bad trash.....that is....the person seeing it should have the responsibility to pick it up....but if you don't see it.....you sshould have no responsibility.....and the buck stops there.
Also, if the bad trash is obviously....negligently placed such as with the drunk people or the drugged people then the people who carelessly left the needle out....should be prosecuted. You have no responsibility to deal with in that case...you can go to the asbestos control, or medical waiste center. Well that is all .....hope an attorney gets to you soon.