Do you clean your bins?!

[Hamster1111]

Inspired by the outsourcing thread.

I've never, ever cleaned my outside bins. Nor do I ever intend to. Am I slovenly?

Yabu - my bins are sparkling
Yanbu - they're outside. Who cares

A man cleans ours. Fortnightly collection, but food has to go in bin. In summer it can get minging .. we also have a dog. Also a regular visiting dog that is raw fed…

i started it after a scallop shell incident.

I pay the bin cleaners to do mine, they come after the bins are emptied twice a month. We’re a large family (8) & we have four pets plus two toddlers in nappies (our hygiene collections are hardly ever picked up so often go in the main bin) so we really need it.

Once it’s just me and DH I probably won’t bother.

Its £6 a month and very much worth it.

No, I wouldn't dream of it. It's a bin. The rain is enough for the outside and I've only got the lid open for a few seconds at a time when I sling a bag in.

We have wheelie bins for garden waste and for landfill stuff. The landfill stuff doesn’t include any food waste, which is collected separately for composting, so there’s nothing in it that can smell - and anyway, it’s all bagged and tied up before it goes in. So our landfill bin is neither dirty nor smelly. The food waste is also bagged in compostable bags, so unless one bursts - no need to clean.

I think the cleaners have a good money maker. The local ones prob does 30% of our area as lots reccomended him locally . It takes him maybe 2 mins. Jets it. Cleaner in. Scrubs with brush. Jets and the machine lifts it to pour it out.
Spray of a disinfectant. Done. He does it quicker than it takes me to put ds in the car.!

Lots of regular bin cleaning going on I see! I mean, if I had maggots in it I'd deal with it... I'm not that anti bin cleaning! But we've been in this house 7 years and the bin has never had so much as a swish with water. Perhaps my neighbours hate me.

There’s a lovely chap that charges £6 a month (does it twice a month).

Indoor bin thoroughly washed and bleached weekly.

I’m always a bit boggled by the amount of bleach thrown about on these kinds of threads. I don’t use it at all.

The only time I've cleaned it is during the heatwave last year because it absolutely stank.

Never ever. And I've never had maggots in my bin.

We did have maggots in a bin in a holiday house swap one time - there was a cat we had to feed, and give medicine to. Sometimes she wouldn't eat it so it ended up in the bin, and after a while we got maggots in the bin, but we don't have a cat and don't eat meat either, so no maggots in our household bin!

I thought the 'I never clean my car' thread was bad but this is minging!

Of course the outside bins get cleaned, If You dont have a pressure washer surely you have a hose pipe and bucket.

Zoflora ours and mop out

I own those things but I don’t feel the need to clean the bin. It’s a bit dusty but doesn’t smell and have never had maggots.

I do mine every 3rd week on wheelybin day or soon after. Good swill out with a Jeyes Fluid solution & an old mop kept for that purpose. Job done.
I also do it as a mark of respect for my lovely cheerful bin men. Why should I expect them to handle wheelybin/recycling box/food slops caddy etc without any thought for the filthy job they do. It seems many don’t.

Why do some people's bins get so maggot-y and others don't m? Ours are emptied fortnightly and we never clean it. I've never seen maggots!

I have already said I rinse out the food caddy. But the recycling, landfill and garden waste bins don’t smell, aren’t maggoty and if it hasn’t rained for a bit are just a bit dusty. Why would I go swilling bleach all over the place?

Same here, but it’s because our food waste is collected separately. Even then, mine all tends to be just mounds of tea bags, lots of veg peelings and the odd chicken bones, so again, nothing to go maggoty. It’s also collected weekly rather than fortnightly, which is how long the landfill bin has to go between empties.

What are you all putting in your bins that is rotting to this extent?

Ours got a pressure wash and bleach once when we had to dispose of a rat but that's about it in its 30 year life. We don't keep it near the house and it never smells bad, we only have one bin bag a week.

If my bins represented an unpleasant experience for the bin men to handle, of course I’d clean them. But if you bag waste properly, rinse your recycling, and use the right receptacles, there should be no need for anything manky to be loose in your bin.

I don’t know where some of you find the time for this sort of malarkey. In the winter I don’t even see outside during daylight hours, let alone have time (or the inclination) to go around bleaching outdoor bins.

What strikes me is all the pro- bin cleaners that have a "man" or a "chap" that does theirs. And, resurrecting the 1960s, probably also have a "lady" that cleans their house.

Bring back the '70s, at least some of us had hopes of real equality back then. Where and when did it all go so terribly wrong.

I have a cleaner but no one cleans my outdoor bin

If there are maggots 🤮 in the summer otherwise no I'm just putting rubbish in them

No . We have some sort of musical chairs scenario in our neighbourhood where some people are allocated wheelie bins and some aren’t , so they’re very coveted. Therefore I try to have the filthiest bin in the hope that nobody steals it, which so far has been fairly effective !

YANBU. I do occasionally rinse out the food waste bin. I have never cleaned the big wheelie bin. I don't see the point - no maggots because no food in it and it doesn't smell either.