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Help I have maggots in my bin!!!!

162 replies

Rach32 · 12/07/2006 10:35

Been on holiday for a week and the bin was emptied today. The combination of hot weather and dirty nappies (even though they were in nappy sacks) has caused the bin to stink and when I looked inside I found some maggots. I have just put some bleach and boiling water inside to kill the maggots but I cant get rid of the smell. Any ideas???

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southeastastra · 13/07/2006 11:19

freeze left-overs! i can't fit anything else in my freezer argh. there will be a bin revolution

geekgrrl · 13/07/2006 11:19

oh no - us too. We don't get a proper wheelie bin but have a small bucket with lid in the garden that we put the bagged-up dog poo in. It's infested! I'll have to chuck the whole thing, can't cope with cleaning it out.

themoon66 · 13/07/2006 11:24

urgh urgh what a horrible picture that paints in my mind!

poppiesinaline · 13/07/2006 11:52

ewwwwww we had maggots last week. I think the wheelie bin could have got up and walked for the amount of movement in there and spilling over the top ewwwwwww.

I made DH bleach it and put boiling water in there once the bin had been emptied. He also left it open for a day and also bleached again. Seems to have solved the problem... for now anyway!!!

saltire · 13/07/2006 11:57

Well, ref the bins being emptied 2 weekly. this is what i was told by Fife council (who else has such crap service)

"Due to new regualtions regarding landfill sites, we are obliged to REDUCE to amount of rubbish we put into landfill sites. In order to enable us to reduce the amount of rubbish, we will be emptying bins fortnightly"

I pointed out that they would in fact have the same amount of rubbish, just that they would be putting it into the landfills less often. However as Dpointed out, fife will only empty bins that have the lid shut. Even if its open less than 5 cms, the bin men open the bin, take the offending bag out and dump on the pavement. So DH reckons that if they do this in March when 2 weekly collections start, then there will be bags of rubbish lying around all ove rht eplace!

southeastastra · 13/07/2006 12:03

it is a crazy situation. here you can buy another bin for £80 (one off payment) so if you can afford the £80 you can effectively have the same service. crap councils. time to start leaving unwanted packaging at the supermarket?

themoon66 · 13/07/2006 12:25

Oh yes southeastastra. Lets start a campaign to leave all our unneccessary packing at the supermarket. Love that idea.

cazboldy · 13/07/2006 12:41

i have a 2 weekly service aswell, which is bad, but recently i rang and complained about the hot weather making the bins smell, and they said that as i have 6 members in my household i can have another set of bins, which were delivered the next day!!

geekgrrl · 13/07/2006 14:15

right, I'll try to sort my dog poo bin out now. Wish me luck... I'm going for the 'look away whilst doing it' approach. RETCH!
Don't want to leave it for dh to do - that seems a bit wimpish (tempting though!). Poor dh finds maggots just as gross as I do, I'm sure.

TinyGang · 17/07/2006 13:33

Aaargh ours is heaving too now...vile vile things. I feel sick!Does fly spray kill the maggots too does anyone know? Ugh!! I can barely open the lid to look.

This is largely due to a fortnightly collection too. Have just rung the council and they said to 'double bag' everything. The problem is, after two weeks of squashing everything in, we can't close the lid and if a bird or cat makes a hole in the rubbish bags, in go the flies.

We recycle as much as we can.

WHEELIEWHEEL · 02/09/2006 15:35

We have had maggots too this weekend in our black bin. Our rubbish is collected every two weeks. I agree with recycling but wish we could have rubbish collected every week. We have used boiling water and then Jeyes fluid to clean out our bin and removed the offending sacks and rebagged them! YUK!!! I hate creepy crawlies. Any more suggestions?

magnolia1 · 02/09/2006 15:38

Same here, last week 1st time ever we had maggots Dh washed bin with bleach and they gone now!! Urgh!!!!!

1Baby1Bump · 02/09/2006 15:44

fill up the kettle....
boil it....
then pour it in slowly...

they stop wriggling instantly!!

so dh told me when we had it!

magnolia1 · 02/09/2006 15:45

Thats barbaric Dh siad they squeal too

1Baby1Bump · 02/09/2006 15:48

mag, apparently if you listen carefully some of them make a hissing noise when the water goes in!!
a waste of good fishing bait he says tho....!!

magnolia1 · 02/09/2006 15:50

Ewwwwwww!

UselessMum · 02/09/2006 16:16

argh. had the same problem myself just last week. because of industrial strike the rubbish did not get collected for two weeks and yes magots started coming out from the wheelie bin!!!

I could not even go near them!!

I had to wait another week before it was collected. (I had to spray something in it meanwhile).

I've used bleach and power washer but I think I;ll try the soda as well.

(I'd never have believed that I could end up discussing maggots in MN too. great!)

dreamteamgirl · 03/09/2006 23:36

Oooh I hate maggots. I have had this, this summer too due to moving and not having binned cleaned for 8 weeks. Shudder

These arent who I use, but they are national www.greencleen.co.uk/, or just google bin cleaning uk

smirnoffice · 27/06/2007 16:41

I seem to always get maggots in my bin during the summer months and absolutely hate having to get rid of them. However, I bought a really fab product online from www.bin-fresh.co.uk It's really easy to use - just put a wipe a day in your bin and it keeps the flies away and adds a nice, fresh smell to your bin at the same time - Try it!!

KezzaG · 27/06/2007 16:50

Who said maggots take weeks to hatch. Not in my experience.

I was 8 months pregnant, dh away, went to bed and left cat food down that had been out in the day, just a tiny bit left in the bowl and had been there for about 4 hours. Didnt even think to empty it. Came downstairs at about 4am to use the loo (have to walk through the kitchen) and I stop and think to myself - hold in I didnt have rice for my tea!! Yep, maggots hatched in the cat food and crawling all over the floor. Now I can actually see when they have been laid, and it can be as quick as an hour after I have out the food down in the summer.

I have also brought eggs from the grocer, put them straight in the fridge and when I opened the box the next day there were maggots on them. I presume it was dirt from the chickens bum or something

They are determined little buggers I'll give them that.

clare112 · 17/05/2008 00:00

oh no i missed the wednesday brown bin collection i've just gone outside to let the dogs out and there's maggots dripping from the bin and theres a sea of maggots all over the patio!! there heading towards the back door helppppppp!!

thank to all for the above advice i'm now going to burn them all with boiling water i hope they hiss!!!

gem1981 · 21/05/2008 08:59

I used to know someone who did admin work in the bin dept of their local council and the council had just started a fortnightly collection

LOTS of people complained about maggots at first as they started the scheme in the summer.

the worst things for these wretched things are chicken carcasses (sp) and fish (YUK!!).

In theory if you bag all your food well and double wrap bones /meat waste etc the flies can't get in to lay their eggs - In theory!!

I have had a fortnightly collection for a while now and even though I do all this I am still finding maggots in my bin - their regularity is slowy curing my phobia though but the smell after 2 weeks is minging, I always worry that germs can be breathed in from my bin (can they???)

I personally put a whole bottle of bleach in my bin with about 3 kettles worth of boiling water and leave the lid open for a few hours. I then give it a good swill and it gets rid of the worst of it.

However i am considering getting a bin cleaner - they charge around £3.00 every 2 weeks.

As an aside all this bleaching etc can't be very good for the environment and isn't this why we are doing this fortnightly collection to encourage recycling and help the environment?

gem1981 · 21/05/2008 09:01

oooh god i am itching all over now

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

gurtie · 09/07/2008 23:27

I got up yesterday morning went out on to patio and there was maggots every where coming from the bin I have re bagged the rubbish washed the bin out but tonight they are back in force my bin is not due to be emptyed for another 5 days and I cannot stand the maggots I am worried they might get in the house HELP HELP HELP

cornsilk · 09/07/2008 23:29

I had them dropping out of my bin once. I called the council and ranted down the phone and they came and took it away and left a shiny new one in it's place.

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