ahhh maggotsssss!

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We have what can only be described as a maggot infestation in our wheelie bin. Ds has dirty nappies still and with this heat our outside bin is literally wriggling with them. I have no idea what to do. Bins get emptied in 3 days, will they even take it?
They are crawling out and dropping off the sides it's the most hideous thing ever. What do I do?

Hot water and bleach?

Probably best to wait until it's emptied

Start double bagging

They're all over the garden floor now. Ew Ew Ew

Will definately be double bagging from now on, will the bin men take it crawling like that?

Awful!!

There is little you can do in this heat - I imagine bin men have to deal with terrible yuck.

Bleach and boiling water will kill off those in the bin and make sure everything is double bagged from then. They only stay as maggots for a day I think before becoming flies

We've had this this week too! Horrible isn't it! Hot water and bleach will help. Our bin men too ours yesterday we've just got a few dead ones left in there. So glad my husband noticed them cause think I would of been sick!

Watching this thread with a kind of horrified wonder...someone once threw a bucket of maggots over me

We had that last week, I felt so embarrassed but it can't be helped. We poured some industrial strength disinfectant in and washed the patio with it (ours were also having a whale of a time sunning themselves!).

Ours was collected yesterday and they took it- I have no idea if they were still crawling as I put DP on bin duty after the discovery. I then spent the first day of the school holidays scrubbing the bins- glamorous life I lead!

One website recommended emptying the contents into bin liners and taking to the dump and cleaning the bin straight away. There was no way the little critters were getting in my car!

If you spray them with garden bug killer (designed for caterpillars/ black fly Etc) they die.

Can't even imagine going through a maggoty bin to take it all the tip! Eughhhh. Will clean the outside with something harsh and just hope they take it. Feel sick, just had to brush them up. What horrifying little creatures!

We keep getting this. It's vile. DP emptied the bin onto the patio then poured boiling hot water and bleach all over the fuckers. The birds then ate the dead maggots.
We re bagged it all and double bagged it and I'm triple bagging any dirty nappies. Keep at it with hot water and bleach. Get a professional bin cleaning company to come clean your bin after it's been emptied on bin day. It cost me £3.50.
We only have fortnightly collections :( so I've been really cheeky and have been putting small (double bagged) bags of food waste in public bins when I take DS out for walks in the pushchair and DP took a bin bag with stuff in to put in his works industrial bins yesterday as I suspect they get emptied more often than once a fortnight.

Poor you. They are bloody hanging. Wait until it's empty and bleach the fuck out of that bin!

Maybe get a separate small bin just for nappies? Around here you can get a weekly collection for them if you ask. In this weather it's just grim isn't it.

Woah, that's 3.50 well spent! I had no idea you could do that.

No!!!

That is dreadful and I think would send me into some kind of trauma state.

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Oops . . .

There is an urban myth at the school I work in that someone put maggots in the vending machine tray.

I tell myself it is a myth as my head can't cope with the possibility that it happened

The bin men won't take the bin when it's crawling with maggots. Clean it out, kill them with bleach or bug spray and rebag the rubbish. We had to do this once when our freezer broke down and we had to throw away the meat when the bin wasn't due to be collected for a fortnight. In the future a drop of Jeyes fluid in the bin is meant to prevent maggots.

This has just happened to me and for the first time in almost a year I really miss my ex who put my bins out I need a hazmat suit before I go anywhere near it again with bleach and boiled water!!

Jeyes fluid and water will disinfect it (I like the smell too)

My neighbour pulled me to one side and said that she put her head in my bin and was nearly sick. I didn't even know where to begin with that. Dozy cow.

Ebay are selling liners for wheely bins. Once you've given it a good scrub and use a disinfectant (Jeys fluid is brilliant) use a liner. At the end of the first week, tie it up and put a second liner in.

This whole forghtnightly collection thing isn't making things better at all. All anyone is doing is increasing the number of plastic bags used in trying to keep flies and maggots at bay, not to mention the sheer amount of bleach that is being used to clean the bins and then poured down the drains. It would be more environmentally friendly to go back to weekly collections.

We have had this before. It's horrid. The bin men will take it and someone once recommended leaving the bin open so tw birds come down and eat the remaining maggots.

Could you put the rubbish in a nearby public bin that gets emptied everyday & then clean the bin?
I often put our chicken carcass wrapped up in the bin near our local shop

That happened to me last year. I used hot water and bleach to kill them.
Ever since then, I've used Bin Buddy .
It kills flies and maggots on contact and also keeps the bin smelling of cherries!
I also use wheelie bin liners.

Thanks everyone, will just have to hope they take it so I can bleach it out. I feel like they're all over me.

3 days? they might be flies by then and your problem will be solved.....