My kitchen bin still smells!!!

meritaten

my big kitchen bin used to be emptied daily (before I had to recycle EVERYTHING) and to be honest, it isnt half full these days before it begins to pong! my small recycled food container tho - thats another matter! we are supposed to put cooked food waste in it and tbh it needs emptying every day - It really stinks! but the biodegradable bags are sooooo expensive! NEARLY £3 for twenty five bags! I dont buy newspapers and dont get freebies - so dont have much choice as these are the only wrappings the council will take! It grieves me that I have to pay over £3 a month to recycle food waste (not that there is much of it - being MSE)! any suggestions?

AlwaysAllie

I have a large bin and its' emptied about twice a week. I put a prinkle of neutrodol powder in the bottom of the liner and the bag and that seems to work. Anything really smelly (eg meat/fish packaging/waste) goes straight in the wheelie bin

AA

Butterfly_Brain

I personally hate bins in the house because they tend to smell, I use a carrier bag instead and put it out in the wheelie bin it as soon as it is full.

SpikyHedgehog

I've got a small plastic bin in the downstairs loo, which is also where the cat's litter tray is, and though I've always used bin liners and bag up the waste from the tray, the bin is stinky . I put the wax from a scented tartlet for my oil burner in it under the liner and that seems to be helping with the smell. Think I'll try bicarb in an old sock or tight as well though.

squeaky

meritaten wrote: »

my big kitchen bin used to be emptied daily (before I had to recycle EVERYTHING) and to be honest, it isnt half full these days before it begins to pong! my small recycled food container tho - thats another matter! we are supposed to put cooked food waste in it and tbh it needs emptying every day - It really stinks! but the biodegradable bags are sooooo expensive! NEARLY £3 for twenty five bags! I dont buy newspapers and dont get freebies - so dont have much choice as these are the only wrappings the council will take! It grieves me that I have to pay over £3 a month to recycle food waste (not that there is much of it - being MSE)! any suggestions?

Do you have a garden? Can you fit a small composter into it?

Oh... and stop wasting food

We've got loads of threads on using up odds and ends and leftovers... leftover threads here on Old Style MoneySaving

monnagran

AlwaysAllie wrote: »

I have a large bin and its' emptied about twice a week. I put a prinkle of neutrodol powder in the bottom of the liner and the bag and that seems to work. Anything really smelly (eg meat/fish packaging/waste) goes straight in the wheelie bin

AA

Please, please, please. Where did you get Neutrodol Powder? I've been looking for it for months, no-one seems to stock it round here.

meritaten

squeaky wrote: »

Do you have a garden? Can you fit a small composter into it?

Oh... and stop wasting food

We've got loads of threads on using up odds and ends and leftovers... leftover threads here on Old Style MoneySaving

my garden is tiny and its full already with my pots etc! I have two recycling bins (one is for the compostor I have up my mums and uncooked food and peelings, egg shells, banana skins, tea bags etc go in that one! the other one (that needs the expensive bags) is for COOKED food waste (which I wont put in the compostor)! as I say there isnt much, mainly what is scraped off plates or bones etc I've made stock from, but it does stink after just a day in warm weather (even in cold if my heating is on)!

hermum

meritaten wrote: »

my big kitchen bin used to be emptied daily (before I had to recycle EVERYTHING) and to be honest, it isnt half full these days before it begins to pong! my small recycled food container tho - thats another matter! we are supposed to put cooked food waste in it and tbh it needs emptying every day - It really stinks! but the biodegradable bags are sooooo expensive! NEARLY £3 for twenty five bags! I dont buy newspapers and dont get freebies - so dont have much choice as these are the only wrappings the council will take! It grieves me that I have to pay over £3 a month to recycle food waste (not that there is much of it - being MSE)! any suggestions?

Could you ask on Freecycle for old newspapers if you're allowed to use them for wrappings, or an ad in the local shop?

zippychick

ive mrged this with our smelly kitchen bin thread

thanks
Zip

Hurdler

I toddled to the local hardware shop for some zoflora and bicarb (and resisted the attempts of the shopkeeper to flog me some spray as well).

I took the bin outside (the last time I tried to clean it when I noticed the niff I almost gagged!)

I used a small basin of hot water and a generous glug of lavender zoflora and gave the plastic inner a really good slosh and the smell mainly came from the top of the lid which looked mouldy and rank so I scrubbed away at that for some time and let the metal outer casing and plastic dry out for a while (a bit tough when it is FREEZING outside).
I dried the plastic inner off with kitchen towel and lay some towel, sprinkled bicarb and then lay some newspaper and bicarb over the top.

Also going to try the tip of bagging up food scrapings and putting those in a separate baggie before they go in the bin or putting them straight in the main bin.

Fingers crossed when I get back from a weekend away the bin's nasty niffs have gone!