To tell you that I am totally fed up of the kitchen bin stinking.

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Probably the time of year.
The kitchen bin.often stinks and it's horrible.
Yes it's gets cleaned and the bags changed but ewwwww I hate it.

How do you cope with your smelly kitchen bin anything I'm missing?😚😷😫

All food waste and tea bags and coffee grounds go in the composting which gets emptied every day at least - recycling gets washed out and anything else that goes in the actual bin gets rinsed if it looks like it will be smelly - if there’s something I’m concerned might make it smelly (chicken carcass) I freeze it and then pop all the frozen stuff in just the day we empty the bin for collection so it gets picked up that day - this has helped a lot

we are very lucky that we have waste pick up daily except Sundays. I no longer have a bin. We still have plastic bags here for our shopping, so I hang one in the utility room on the door handle (it is off my kitchen) and it goes out every day for pick up. Thank god. In this heat it would stink to high heaven.

I'm thinking of getting a compost bin, but worry it will just be full of maggots all the time

Empty it daily.

The kitchen bin is just non-recyclables. Crisp packets etc. No food and nothing smelly so it never smells of anything.

Now the food bin - that's another matter at this time of year 🤢

A sprinkle of soap powder in the bottom does help

It'll be certain food stuffs in it that can cling after washing sometimes, that make a bin stink. Especially if wrappers from meat fish, pet food tins coffee grounds, tea bags, fish tins. All you can do is throw the bag out soon as it begins to smell and wash and rinse the bin out really well.
Can you have a small kitchen compost bin for food scraps? The pedal bin for other stuff.

Keep news paper on your bench top. Wrap all your rubbish as you go before you put it into the bin.

Yes, I know newspapers are old fashioned but they have their uses.

Emptying everyday surely means you get through loads of plastic bags though. Not great for the environment or your pocket. Better to avoid putting anything wet or smelly in there.

OP, you've said twice now that you have a pedal bin. That's meaningless unless you say what size it is. I have a pedal bin in my bathroom and kitchen - both completely different sizes and capacities.

Also, 'when it is full' is not a timescale.

Sometimes, our bin is full after a couple of days. Sometimes, it takes a week to fill it.

If you want advice on tackling this you're going to need to give people the information they're asking for in order for them to do that.

As pps, only clean waste goes into kitchen pedal bin. Meat and fish wrappers rinsed off before disposal. Food waste in the caddy in the garage. That smells, but not so bad as it is in the garage, and it's also cooler in there. Collected weekly.

Recycling always rinsed out, into the big wheelie bin, also in the garage. Never smells.

We have a tiny (10L) bin and empty it daily before bed. No issues with smell as any leftover food etc isn't in there long enough!

I do this. All food waste goes in this little tub beside the sink and gets emptied regularly. My mum did the same and I suppose I just followed suit.

Recycling shouldn't smell. Anything that has to be general rubbish and doesn't suit food waste or recycling gets trotted out to the general waste bin outside.

Oh my word! Where do you live????

It’s packaging for meat and fish that smells. We rinse and put in the outside recycling box right away. Then only thing that goes in our bin is nappies with wee in them, old tissues, biscuit wrappers etc. less stinky food like old uneaten rice or Cheerios etc.

I’ve discovered “citrus fresh” odour neutralising bin liners from Tesco - they do actually help.
Food waste goes in a food caddy here though so it’s just smells from some food packaging

Our bin is emptied every day in warmer weather, and rinsed out.

I find onions and garlic trimmings (tiny, tiny amounts) are the worst culprits for making my bin stink.

I put them (and most other "wet" stuff) straight into the outside dust bin.

I use a Glade plug-in to make the bin smell nice, just a few drops of the oil into a new bin liner works wonders 😂I've found it works best, the "bin freshener" stuff doesn't come close to a good old plug-in!

Veg peelings into compost, tins and glass and some plastics rinsed out for recycling. Paper/card into recycling. Anything else in the bin, but things like plastic food containers would be rinsed first, so there aren't any meat juices or curry sauce or the like going in. I don't often have meat with bones, so there's not much of thst sort of food waste.

None of our bins stink. We have a compost caddy for fruit and veg bits which gets emptied into the outside bin daily. Hardly ever throw away other food but if we do it's into a green bag and tied up asap. All packaging gets rinsed before putting in the bin. I have no sympathy for people whining about maggots and stink in bins. It's avoidable with a small amount of effort.

Ours doesn’t smell unless we’ve had fish and put the bones in the bin - then it gets emptied whether it’s full or not. Meat bones generally go in the freezer for future stock making.

We use those Simple human bin bags with the collar that fits the bin so nothing ever goes down the side of the bag. That helps. Also rinse any unclean packaging before it goes in the recycling. I don’t have a food waste caddy but find any fruit/veg waste doesn’t smell anyway?

Yes, I use Freshbin or Neutradol bin powder. I also put anything wet or smelly in a small bag, and tie it up before putting it in the kitchen bin (this is after I once got maggots in hot weather )

Get some biodegradable nappy bags. I've got a pack of 50 and they are for my baby's nappies of course but I realised anything smelly could actually go in them to prevent the bin smell. Could hang one inside our outside a cupboard for smelly kitchen bits, then bin that.

The simple answer to this is that you're not emptying your bin enough. You probably need to do it daily in the summer.

I have a smaller kitchen albino (one of those with a recycling drawer built in) and its good because I naturally change it more. Big kitchen bins are more likely to kick up a stink of waiting until they're full