Stinky dustbin !

seren_3

Our bin gets emptied fornightly.
As soon as its emptied i chuck a washing up bowl of boiling water and bleach in it,i dont empty it out.
This works for me and keeps the bin clean,my bins hasnt been emptied for 10 days and no smells or flies.

Little_John

Our bins have been on fortnightly emptying for a while the weeks in between they take the recylcling box. The best bit is that they are reverting back to weekly collections as so many people have complained that the streets are full of rubish now.

It is not possible to fit 2 weeks of rubish in to the same size bin and a small recycling box even crushing cans and bottles doesnt help use fit everything in and everything that doesnt fit in either the box or bin they leave so you have that and the next 2 weeks the next time they come round.

A bloke near us was told to take his excess rubish to the local tip, so every time he did he sent a billtot he local council seeing as he pays his councill tax for them to empty his bins they weent doing it so he charged them for the time and effort that he took to remove the rubish the council werent removing. hey and he won. we have bags of recycling stuff its a pain no tops on bottles, remove the labels off tins its stupid.

Ohh we have a guy that cleans our bin he follows the bin men round and has a machine he designed and built to clean them it is like a huge bottle washer he holds all the gunk and crap that comes out of the bins so it doesnt end up on the floor like some cleaners do.

Februarycat

Deleted_User wrote:

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

I'm wondering if its the cat food as my cat never eats all her food up, but I have been covering it over when she has been out, like you I always wash the bin out and put dustbin powder in and still the maggots appear.

GuidonTheBee

This won't be an option for everyone but earlier this year we got 2 composters & a Green Cone for a total cost of £22 (Council subsidised). Now, all our uncooked veg waste gets composted & all our cooked food thats not suitable for composting (even chicken carcasses) goes in the cone.

Now, theres almost nothing going into the 'landfill bin' that can create a stink & even on a 2 week collection theres no significant smell.

Its not why we cot the composters & the cone, but I'm quite pleased with the side benefit this summer !!

[Deleted User]

Februarycat wrote:

I'm wondering if its the cat food as my cat never eats all her food up, but I have been covering it over when she has been out, like you I always wash the bin out and put dustbin powder in and still the maggots appear.

I've started taking her dish up off the floor and covering with clingfilm as soon as she has finished eating. She's not impressed but drastic measures are needed.

I think this is the ONLY way flies are accessing any food that gets thrown out. I don't leave any other food out.

Tibbie's_mum

We're the same with a fortnightly collection and, although, we have a wheelie bin from the council we don't use it as it would mean having to take it through our house from our small courtyard and then it would block the lane we live on, plus the council cannot get the wheelie bin lorry up our road!!!!!

I am trying to recycle as much as possible. Any food packaging that cannot be recycled I'm washing to remove any food deposits and I'm trying to limit the amount of food I throw away, but if I have a large amount and I've got some time to wait for my next collection I am actually freezing this waste if I have room in the freezer and then putting it out on dustbin day.....what a palaver!!!

I'm also spraying inside my black bags with fly spray and around the area I keep them, I know this isn't very environmentally friendly but I can stand flies and at the moment I'm having to use disposable nappies as we do not have a washing machine. I don't seem to be having too much of a problem with the smell just flies!!

This hot weather and the problem with flies has really made me think about the amount of rubbish my family creates so I'm trying to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle as much as possible

Chris123_2

We, like many of you are having the same problem, the bin is crawling with maggots as they only come every two weeks. to try and help with this i chuck the food waste in whatever bin they are taking next. I know I'm not ment to but it is just foul.

So on week one it goes in the landfill bin the next week it goes in the recycling.

Will try pouring a large bittle of value bleach in it on monday when they next empty it and just leave it in there, see if that helps. The only problem may be that when being emptyed bleach may go on to the people emptying it. wouldnt want to get them covered in it, cant be a nice job in the summer!

Toodlepip

Hi

We use the jeyes fluid method....its expensive but seems to last for ages and I like the smell! We did have a wheelie bin cleaning service (a franchise) who I paid £24 for 6 months cleaning....they cleaned my bin once....never to be seen again!!! I did try phoning 3 different numbers for them...all were unrecognised and I wrote to them demanding my money back but surprise,surprise...no response. I've given up now. If you use a cleaning service my advice is pay per wash, not upfront.

Craig_A

They probably left town, taking their caravans with them

[Deleted User]

Bit of an update -

Firstly - Debt-Free-Chick is absolutely right. Jeyes Fluid DOES do the trick. Thank you so much.

After my bin was emptied on Weds it was again infested with maggots at the bottom. I have concluded this can only be because of the cat food left down indoors for the cat. No other food is ever left unattended or uncovered.

Therefore if you have a similar problem with maggots, this may the cause.

I then went to a local pound shop and bought some cheap net style food covers - which, after the cat has finished eating, go straight over the food bowl. (I actually caught a fly on the food cover not long after I first did this so I'm convinced I have now mainly eliminated the problem.)

As for the smell in the bin - I killed off the maggots with cheap neat bleach. Unfortunately I had to tip it down the drain. Then using the strong solution of the Jeyes Fluid I scrubbed the bin, inside and out and underneath for good measure, using a broom and scrubbing brush and left it upside down in the sun to dry.

Unlike 2 days after the bin collection a fortnight ago - the bin now smells fragrant (in a Jeyes Fluid sort of way).

I have also invested in some wheelie bin liners from Robert Dyas ('cos I happened to be in there today) and tomorrow - I shall stock up on fragrant indoor bin liners so I can keep double bagging all the rubbish.

So there you are - Jeyes Fluid is the new Stardrops!