Do you clean the inside of your wheelie bins ?

[myrightarmandleg]

I am considering having the general waste bin cleaned inside and then using large bin liners to line the bin to stop it getting so filthy again.

One-off bin clean = £28
Pack of 20 large bin liners = £6.99

what does everyone else do ? I don't feel like I will need the bin cleaned every month, if I use bin liners

£3.50 a month here. Money well spent in my view. The smell from bins that are not cleaned is horrendous all year round. In our terraced streets, there are hundreds of them on the pavements. Awful.

i don't use him but we have one, he's so efficient. As you say following the bin route.
Only thing, he has an automatic tank affair in his van so every bin gets washed in the same water. Kind of misses the point really.
£28 for a one off clean!

Of all the things I need to clean in my house, my wheelie bin might be quite literally at the bottom of the list.

We get ours cleaned, £4.50 a month. We never used to but one had maggots in it once and it gave both of us the boak cleaning it out so we decided to outsource 😆

Same, but no idea how much it cost. DH pays it annually and he just said you pay for 10 and get 2 months free.

I just hose mine down every month normally or more often in the summer. They definitely need cleaning otherwise there’s a chance you’d end up with maggots.

I can always tell when a bin has not been cleaned they always smell really bad especially if the weather is hot.

@myrightarmandleg shame that it’s only you trying to seperate the waste.

i don’t have a hose but I swish mine down on emptying day with a spray cleaner with bleach and an old mop kept for the purpose and leave the Bin open until its dried I have seen wheelie bin liners in the shop, I think they sound like a good idea

@GetOffTheCounter how ABSOUTLEY appalling for you 🤮

We have 3 kinds of bin - black for general waste, blue for dry recyclables and green for food and garden waste. The blue and green are one collection day fortnightly and the black is the other. We don't have a kitchen caddy type collection weekly, but over in Norfolk my SIL does. This means the green bin can get quite pongy. Generally, I hose it out, turn it upside down to dry from time to time. There is a local wheelie bin cleaning service that's well used.

I have very rarely hosed out the black or blue bins. I think some people fail to rinse and dry out bottles and containers effectively before putting in their blue bins, making cleaning them a bit more necessary. Most of what goes in the black bin gets bagged up with the aim of keeping the bin dry. If we miss a collection over summer hols I doubly bag with garden green sacks for black bin.

Ours doesn't and we are encouraged to put food waste in the green bin along with garden waste. They reject if they see anything that looks like non organic by which I mean sweet wrapper among the leaves or bag they think isn't paper so you have to be careful what you put in it. One neighbour's mouldy blue bread was rejected as they saw blue 🤣 Inexplicably, the green bin collections are monthly over the Christmas period, eeew.

Yes, Ours is collected via green bin. They have to be over careful as people are such idiots! Even our green bin we don't need to clean except maybe once a year - after the horrible extended xmas period!

So many pps without weekly food collections. That's really shit. We have weekly food, then every other week for recycling and rubbish and garden. We have to pay extra for garden. Ours also collects small electricals, batteries, clothes, etc etc on recycling week.

Every other week food collections here- hence the rats 🤢

We get ours cleaned monthly by a private company, costs about £7, well worth the money imo. Definitely doesn’t smell like they did before we started getting them regularly cleaned.

I have never cleaned any of my 3 wheelie bins.

The main one isn’t particularly dirty. Food waste goes in a separate bin, but we have virtually none of that because I compost all vegetable peelings etc. In addition, we don’t create much rubbish, so the rubbish sack doesn’t go into the wheelie bin until the night before it is collected.

The recycling bin doesn’t get washed either because food and drink containers are always washed, or at least rinsed out, before they are put in.

The garden waste bin gets a bit messy, but not bad enough to bother washing.

The main food bin often has nothing in it, but when it does, the waste is enclosed in a plastic bag so the bin doesn’t get dirty.

The only bin I ever wash is my small compost bin.

When we used to have a wheelie bin, I cleaned it every summer. Would throw some bleach in, then put the hose pipe in it and scrub it down with a garden brush.
Then once rinsed down leave it out to dry. Used to find it annoying but don’t think I would now.
We have a food caddie now for food waste, that’s washed weekly.

I clean mine maybe twice a year. It’s a pain the ass as i only have a front yard with no hose so have to cart out buckets of water but i just put some bleach in then hot water and soak for a bit.
I use a wheelie bin liner and also anything that goes in is bagged but somehow I still get the odd fucker who after my bins been emptied will chuck something gross in before I can bring it in.

I get mine cleaned once a month by a professional company, it is the best £4 I spend.

I did pay someone to clean the bin kinda regarded it as helping someone have a business tbh.Same with window cleaner, milkman ,paperboy.

I don't clean mine.

Yeah this.
I secure mine with duct tape.

I pay £3.50 a month to get the main bin cleaned. It keeps the bin slugs under control 🤮

No. I have other things to do.

Yep same here , it gets jet washed or a bucket of hot soapy water and a stiff brush .

I certainly wouldn't put bin liners in it. They would end up in the bin lorry and contaminate the whole load unless you can get wheelie bin sized food compost bags ?

Absolutely not. They’ve just introduced a shiny new £40 fee for garden bins to be emptied. I’d rather set fire to my money before paying to clean the fecking inside of it.