How to clear a bin infested with maggots!?

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Feeling a bit useless here, grateful for any ideas/help!

We moved into our new home last month and have no brown bin. Requested one from the council ages ago, despite chasing, still have no brown bin.

Anyway, there was a smaller, sealed bin outside that we put some food waste in, thinking that any day now our new brown bin will turn up. Well, the brown bin hasn't turned up and the current bin is overflowing with maggots.

What's the best way to deal with this? Where do we dispose of the rotten food and the maggots once we're hopefully able to kill them? I'm feeling really stupid here and have no idea what to do next. Feeling really sick thinking about it.

Open the bin and let the birds deal with the maggots. Then once they've dealt with the maggots empty the rubbish out put it into sturdy bags and take it to the tip. Once the bin is empty clean it out and until the new bin arrives double bag every bag of rubbish you put in it.

Well depends on what bins you have for what?

My brown bin is garden waste.

When is your bin collection?

Pour bleach and boiling water onto the bin. Swish it around and then tip out. Do this a couple of times then hose it down and leave to dry up side down.
I've had to do this often in summer.

Straight away boiling water or neat bleach will do the job to kill the maggots.

If you can take it to the tip to get rid of it but that will mean handling it. It would probably be worth it just to get it out of your environment though. Then call the council and ask for a new brown bin. Locally we have to pay for replacements so that might be the case with you too.

I don't know what to do about the rotten food , apart from double bag it and put it in the bin sorry, but the only thing that will kill maggots and do it instantly is boiling water.It sounds cruel but it is instant , they straighten out as soon as it hits them and they're dead.

Pour boiling water on them
Put the food waste in your general waste bin until your food waste bin turns up.

Thanks everyone.

To clarify, we're missing our brown food bin. Have put in a request for a new one, chased 3 times, and still not turned up.

Stupid question alert: once the maggots are dead, where do you put them? Do you bury them?

Will they collect the general waste bin if there's food in it? I always thought you risk a fine if you put food anywhere but the brown bin. If I can do this, it would make things a lot easier for now!

I had this issue one hot summer.
Rang council for a “special collection?”

“No can do” they said “use fly spray!!”

So I did & it killed the maggots. (Of course it did. Maggots are from flys!) Boom boom.

Put the food bags in a black bin liner and noone will know whats in them. I've never heard of fines for putting food waste into a general waste bin

Thanks! Where did you put the maggots once they were dead?

Most people get maggots when it’s warm.

you can leave it to the birds or just pour boiling water on them and pour it out in the street, the birds will eat them

I would bag up the food into small bags and go for a walk and drop one in each street bin you see, they get emptied frequently- I wouldn’t want it in my car.

Just open it and let the birds deal with them, so much easier than killing them and rinsing dead maggots down the drain.

Remove food bags into bin liners and put in general waste. Pour boiling water to kill maggots and pour out and hose interior of bin.

Put food waste into general waste until you get a brown bin

When I had to do it I used hot water and bleach. I then used a long hosepipe and washed the bin out into a gutter drain in the road. If you've got a sewer drain on your property you could lift the lid and wash the bin out into that to get rid of the maggots.

I poured them down the street drain outside my house. You have my sympathy maggots give me the heebie jeebies and make my skin crawl.

Just decant in to thick rubble sacks and out in general waste. Suffocate them.

Or whatever this sealed bin is out of in the general waste bin in collection day. Goodbye bin and maggots. Also fly spray.

I tend to freeze food waste in the summer until it's bin day. (I mean fish skin and chicken carcass etc, not an apple core)

But yes I've had maggots too and it's grim

Thankfully I pay £3.50 for some one to clean and and sanitise my bin each month.

Thanks so much everyone. Honestly the thought of them makes me want to cry, and on top of it, I'm 6 months pregnant so it's all amplified! Obviously it'll be DH doing it... But I'm still horrified on his behalf.

Hot water and bleach sounds like the way forward. Does this mean though that he'll have to fish out the bags of food from the bin, with all the maggots around, and then use the hot water and bleach 🤢🤢🤮🤮 otherwise he'll make food waste soup in the bin!?

See I suggested we just put the bin inside a black bag and into general waste bin for collection. DH thinks it's too bulky and heavy. It's also a council bin so not sure we're allowed to just dispose of it that way? We had some waste collection guys round to clear some stuff for us and they said they couldn't dispose of the bin because it's a council bin. Sigh.

Boiling water to kill maggots, then you can chuck the dead maggots onto garden soil (not if you use bleach of course)

People say don't kill them but the only place by my house to store bins is by the front door and they started coming in through the bottom! It was vile. Hot water all the way!

What is the bin's usual purpose?

How big is the maggoty bin?

For the current waste - open a large thick black bag, put rubber gloves on, put the whole bin inside the bag, open it and tip out waste and maggotS with your hands inside the black bag.

Pull bin out of bag, quickly fill with boiling water to kill Clinging maggots.

Tie large black bag tight to suffocate maggots, double bag black bag, put in general waste, dump rubber gloves into boiling water then chuck those too.

Tip out the water and the dead maggots onto soil or down drain.

Open a beer to celebrate bravery!

Honestly don't know. It's a small black bin that can be sealed and it's from the council. It was here when we moved in.