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

I have mine cleaned each month and have done for years.

There is a house I walk past sometimes and they leave their bins on the pathway and not in their garden and it absolutely stinks. I tend to walk on the opposite path to avoid the disgusting stench. 😱

@BiasedBinding Yes, dog shit goes in the outside bin.

You'll be pleased to hear that last time they did my bin, my cleaner was a middle aged woman who had a male teen apprentice (?) with her. She did the actual cleaning while he rolled the bins to the correct house and just chatted to her.

Oh you mean the green recycling bin, that's a shit free zone.

No. One bin is just for card and paper and the other bin for tied up bags - I'm sure it could do with a clean but I've never done it.

@BiasedBinding

ME chill out 😂😂😂. It's you that's posted eleventy billion times!! I never said you were responding to me, just that you are like a dog with a bone! We get you don't wash yours out because you have a perfect system that doesn't require it & you don't approve of people using bleach. We get it.

I have mine cleaned once a month. Only the black 'general' one though. Not the recycling one,

Dreadful, isn't it, that women aren't allowed to be bin cleaners?
Or is it that they just haven't wanted to set up their own bin cleaning service?

Oh, and my last but one cleaner was a man. Lovely Polish guy. He left to set up his own ironing business though.

No. Never needed to - bags haven't split. Rarely put in food waste as most is composted. Never had maggots.

I have no idea if it smells, it's outside so any minor whiffs go into the fresh air.

We have a bin cleaner too. It's very reasonably priced. Follows the hun truck and even pulls the bin back to its little shed for me.

The general bin might get a hose wash with some disinfectant a couple of times in the summer if it gets a bit whiffy. But I'm north Scotland so we don't often get roasting heatwaves and I've never had maggots ever.

Recycling bin is very clean.

Food caddy get collected weekly and the food waste is in special bags provided by the council to put in the caddy so it's ok too. We have teen dc so very little food waste! Mostly tea bags, egg shells and fruit cores.

No but we have a man on a mobile cleaner which comes after the bin truck has been and sloshes water inside them all and tips them upside down. So they’re clean, but I don’t do it!

No. Round here a clean bin is a nicked bin.
costs way to much to replace, cheaper to let it get really manky so it doesn’t stray and as it lives at the bottom
of the garden … it offends no one.

I voted YANBU because I'm exactly like you. I intermittently think that I should wash them all out after the recycling/rubbish has gone, but I never do.

Hygiene isn't popular on this forum

Oh dear Lord, all the people saying ‘because maggots’, I didn’t know that even happened! Barf!

Never cleaned it. My neighbour occasionally power washes it when he does his bins and tuts but hey, he washes it for free so...
He doesn't really mind

Why do outside bins collected by the dustmen need to be a cause for concern? We aren’t using them as tables to eat dinner from or preparing a meal on!
Bag it, bin it, slam it (the lid) hope they collect it, sling it back in t’garden. Job done.

I clean our bins. I didn't need to when I lived in town and the bins were emptied regularly but then we moved. The bin emptying cycle here is much more erratic and like PPs we got maggots Now we clean the bin (ourselves!) have giant sized bin bags even composting ones for the food bin, a special spray and a scented powder. Every few weeks, we spray the bins, wash them, put a new bag in and shake the powder into the bag.

Not sure why an outdoor bin needs to be hygienic, what do you do with yours ? I'm clearly missing out on something.

No my manky wheelie bins are outside so I don't care.

As in the collection bins? No, never have, never will. Household bins yeah once in a blue moon once or twice yeah.

You never get our bin nicked if you have a layer of bin juice at the bottom 😉

I collect my meat waste and old cat food in a freezer bag, then put it out, still frozen on the morning of collection. It helps keep the flies/maggotts at bay

This! Although we have added road/garden mud splashed up the outside and someone added a spilt in the lid and side when they tried to use it as a ladder to gain entry via a window. It now has a second job as a potential man trap.