Stinky dustbin !

Agutka

BrandNewDay wrote:

perhaps some double-bagging would help. We put all poopie nappies into grocery bags and double up the bag, then twist and tie in a knot. Then, they go into a regular bin liner. Finally, double-bag your trash with an extra bin liner. Perhaps you could use the heavy-duty bin liners that are designed for lawn clippings/heavy trash. Like I said, this isn't frugal and may seem bad for the environment, but stench, maggots, and flying ants is ample justification, IMO.

And good for the environment is what this fortnightly thing is supposed to be all about! The council get charged penalties for filling up landfills, yet we have to fight stench and pests by landfilling tons of plastic bags and pouring bleach everywhere

BrandNewDay

How does postponing garbage an extra week make a difference? Do they think that it will stop you from creating so much trash if you have to have the stinky stuff around?

Doesn't this encourage illegal dumping of trash?

Craig_A

The idea is that on week one they empty the rubbish bin and week two they empty the recycling bin. I am all for recycling and am happy to seperate and rinse the bottles/cans under the tap but I do think the main bin should be emptied every week regardless. Then empty the recycling bin every three or four weeks. It'd entail having a couple more dustcarts on the road (on different routes each week obviously) but it'd mean that we could live without the ridiculous smell we have to put up with now.

Altarf

Craig_A wrote:

The idea is that on week one they empty the rubbish bin and week two they empty the recycling bin.

In my area week one is the general rubbish, week two is garden waste, and every other week another lorry for recycling. And they still don't collect glass bottles.

So between the end of October and the beginning of March the garden waste lorry drives around with nothing to pick up, but in the summer we have stinking bins. And it is really great when you are away for two weeks and the collection falls in the middle, as the rubbish is a month old and really stinky.

Since every house, no matter how small has three wheely bins and nowhere to keep them, the council is introducing £1000 fines if they are left out.

Part of the idea behind the fortnightly collection was that it would cut down rubbish. Duh, if it won't fit their bin, people will either dump it or take it to the tip. Either is not good for the environment.

Oh and who voted for the alternate rubbish/garden waste, all the councillors with big houses and big gardens. Plenty of room to store all the bins and now they don't have to take the garden waste to the tip.

Gorgeous_George

We're getting fortnightly collections soon and recycling bins - even for foodstuff.

We already have fortnightly recycling collections but they don't take everything. As I have to visit the recycling centre anyway - to ditch the recyclables that the council won't take - I take all of it there and sort it myself.

Terry nappies would be preferred to disposables. Possibly greener and certainly less smelly. With the new system taking foodstuffs, I don't expect my bin to smell, but I like the idea of setting up a bin cleaning service. Just need it to pay £30K.



GG

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Thick question time but....

How have maggots got into my bin when it was only emptied by the binmen a few days ago and on that day I gave it a thorough clean out using bleach and disinfectant?

I have also been double bagging rubbish and there have been no leaks or splits.

Today - the stink was back again and on peering in I saw a couple of maggots IN the sealed bags.

I am fastidious about not leaving any food out uncovered.

Having said that - I've just thought - could it be thrown out remnants of food from the cat's dish?

firespire

My wheelie bin was smelling and I found some disinfectant called Zoflora in my cupboard See here. I has a very stong floral fragrance - stronger than any other disinfectants I have used. You have to dilute it so maybe I used it too concentrated but I can still smell it in the bin a few weeks later. I have seen this product in Superdrug, I assume you can get it elsewhere like supermarkets.

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sneekymum wrote:

I just pour in a bottle of Value Bleach once a year - no need to empty it

You leave the bleach in the bottom of the bin? I poured some in today over the rubbish that's already there. Will it kill the existing maggots?

I can't face hauling it all out.

Contains_Mild_Peril

If my council only collected rubbish once a fortnight, I'd write them a very strongly worded letter about it. That's just disgusting in a heatwave. Didn't they have people on telly in the 1970s when the bin men went on strike complaining about how it was completely unacceptable to have rubbish lying around for a fortnight or more?
Luckily, my flats have big communal wheelie bins which are emptied twice a week (used to be just once, but they sometimes overflowed, so we pestered the council and they finally started doing it twice a week). The bad news is they're planning to demolish these "slums", so I suppose I'll have to get used to having to clean my own own wheelie bin (or pay the commercial wheelie bin cleaners to do it) when they move us elsewhere.
I usually use bleach to clean my kitchen bin.
If nappies are a problem, have you considered using cloth nappies? You dispose of the poo down the toilet, so you don't have it stinking out your bin, and you also save money and help protect the environment. Now I think of it, I wonder if nappy sanitising powder might also be useful for cleaning bins? As I recall, it was pretty effective in keeping a bucketful of nappies soaking in the solution from smelling noticeably. It's a lot more expensive than cheapo bleach, though.

glenstan

i clean my bin with fairy liquid, let it dry and sprinkle with tea tree oil the smell of the tea tree lasts ages and seems to discourage flying insects. i buy the tea tree from aldi when it comes on the thursday specials