To not understand how to have a kitchen bin without flies?!

[YellowEllis]

I guess I'm posting for traffic but please help I am at my wits end.

A couple of months ago we started having trouble with fruit flies, we moved the kitchen bin outside until we were on top of it. Cleaned the kitchen twice daily, bleached floors and eventually they were gone. We moved the bin back in and within days we have fruit flies starting to reappear. DS eats his body weight in fruit.

I was going to buy one of those small food bins some people get from the council and keep this in the garden and just have non food bin in kitchen. DH said that small bin would attract rats if there permanently, as kitchen bin has only been out temporarily and haven't had any issues as yet.

Do I buy a small bin? Do I keep it inside or outside? MIL said to just empty bin daily but it takes us about 3/4 days to fill a bin bag so we'd get through way more bin bags than normal. I'm so confused. Kitchen is kept spotless. It's just the bloody bins.

I used white vinegar it worked a treat - also hadn't thought of cling film, mine are just lazy and make no effort to escape 😄

We empty bin at least once a day. We don’t have flies.

Get an garbage disposal in your sink, all food waste goes in it and it’s flushed away straight away.

We had a fruit fly problem a few months back. A few weeks of being scrupulous about not leaving stuff around and they died off from lack of available food. But normally we have an open kitchen bin emptied when it's full and we don't have fly problems. A fair bit of fruit and veg waste but very little meat.

We rarely open our kitchen window, that probably helps. Maybe put a bug screen up if you want the window open?

I hate bins in the house , any rubbish goes straight out to the wheely bins , recycling and food waste in those bags that decompose and straight out.
I can smell a bin as soon as I walk into someone's house ... sorry they are my big bear !

Any packaging from food is rinsed before binning, food waste is put into a caddy in a bag, both provided by the council. Unless it really hot we only empty the food waste caddy one a week, we don't have much waste as we have a Labrador. Kitchen bin is emptied once it's full into the outside general waste wheelie bin

Our council-issued small food caddies dont seal very well and even when emptied daily we were getting fruit flies On the other hand our regular, rather ancient kitchen bin seals well and there are never fruit flies even if we put food waste in it. Fortunately our council still gives us the option of whether we out food waste in the regular wheelie bin kr in with the garden waste. A lot of people put it in whichever bin is being collected that week.