Maggots in bin help

[purpleme12]

There are maggots in my bin
I have been pouring hot water on and salt
While I think some have died there are clearly some still there!
They're not going away!
I'm freaking out here and I thought they'd be gone by now!

Even if your council doesn't collect food waste, it is worth having a separate small caddy for food scraps under your kitchen sink or just outside your back door, imho.

That way you can keep all food bits together in one place rather than just rotting in your general kitchen bin, the lid will keep smells in. If you line it with newspaper and then a compostible liner, you can wrap the whole lot up neatly and put in your outside bin on the night before bin collection day. The key to not getting maggots is to not have flies buzzing around your food waste - it's not all that tricky, especially in the winter months.

So when it's empty I should lie it down in the garden open?

I had this last summer and I was genuinely in tears. I paid someone £10 to come and empty it for me and then deep cleaned it. The smell was beyond and i had a full blown fly infestation!

I had a mountain of maggots all over the bin. Inside and outside. I know it's horrendous to deal with.

Vinegar in boiling water and then salt and they all died.

There was a maggot soup to deal with which I couldn't due to physical difficulties. Someone helped me dispose of the soup down a drain. They all died very quickly

So I'm ok to put this 'soup' down the drain?

I have posted on Facebook about people who clean bins but no ones answered yet 😭

I'll probably get slated for this but we don't have a food waste bin. In the summer I put food waste in the bin over road (public not someone else's!). It gets emptied daily. Ours are every two weeks. The maggots in the summer were grim.

O come on. Crying over a maggoty outside bin is very very silly. And paying someone a tenner to clean it for you, even more silly! How do some people get through life being so wet?

Careful, it's considered fly tipping and they can fine you.

When your bin has been emptied, pour 3 or 4 kettles of boiling water and squirt a load of bleach into it. Maybe half a bottle. Get a hard bristle outdoor sweeping brush, give it a good scrub all over, inside and out, including lid. Empty it down an outdoor grid and leave open (on a dry day) to dry as best you can.

When you are filling it, make sure your bags are tied properly.

@ISeriouslyDoubtIt wow you’re lovely ☺️
I had a psychosis relapse last year along with raging OCD, so it wasn’t silly for me to be upset over this.