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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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ludaloo · 03/09/2008 16:32

BTW....mucho mucho sympathy EV xxx

grouchyoscar · 03/09/2008 17:06

A newspaper soaked in Jeyes fluid put in the bottom of the bin tends to help with smells and insect issues

ColumboWearsControlPants · 06/09/2008 21:00

When you say maggots - I've had little cocoon shaped brown things (eggs?) around the lid of my compost bin which is only collected once a fortnight - are they maggots or are they the stage before maggots? They don't move or anything. Anyway, I have only got them since I stopped bagging all kitchen waste in brown paper caddy liners, so needless to say I have immediately ordered a whole load more (after doing the bin with boiling water and Dettol).

My council say they do the fortnightly collections to encourage recylcing which is fair enough, but I think if it is really for recycling and not just cost cutting they should take weekly green bin collections (compostable waste) and weekly bottle/plastics/paper recycling collections but keep the non recyclable wheelie bins fortnightly. It would encourage people to sort their waste more and would prevent smells and maggots in the summer.

whitetulips · 06/09/2008 22:22

Me too!! Have used 2 bottles of bleach today and now they are marching across the drive and up to the front door, yuk yuk yuk. My bin is cleaned by a company every month, and was done 11 days ago everything is bagged I feel so dirty.

Am on the phone to the council first thing monday

DanJARMouse · 06/09/2008 22:37

I use a bin clean company that come every 4 weeks - due again on monday.

Our brown bin (garden waste, food waste and cardboarD) had maggots a few times earlier in the summer, havent noticed any lately.

Want to get some compostable bags for bagging up food waste though because it is that that attracts the flies.

And living right by the smelly docks, we get LOADS of flies!

maturestudentlikegoodwine · 22/09/2008 21:51

I just had hundreds of em marching up my path n under my back door making an assault on the kitchen floor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Boiling water stopped em in their tracks as did the broom, but in the end I resorted to pickin them up and squashing them. my back garden looks like a maggot masacre, but they keep squirming back to life!!!!!!!!
So much for having 2 teenage sons who ran away squealing!!!!

iklefred · 03/07/2009 11:36

ok, less of how often the bins are emptied and reply to the questions in hand alot of you are saying to clean the bin with bleach and other stuff but that is when the bin has been emptied. how the hell do u get rid off them if your bin is full and collection isnt due for another week? my bin and garden are infested, my kids cant play outside because of it and the neighbours can see it all, i feel disguting with the fact that my garden is covered and need a very quick solution to the problem.

PurlyQueen · 09/07/2009 00:35

This is happening to me right now. Maggots are crawling all over my wheelie bin. And they are crawling in convoy across the front patio .

I have poured boiling water and bleach all over the front patio.

I am so scared that they will get into the house. Thank god the refuse collection is this morning.

This has never happened to me before. I'm mortified and scared. I can't face lifting the lid of the wheelie bin.

thumbwitch · 09/07/2009 00:39

urgh gross - I remember we looked in the school bins outside the dining hall one summer when I was about 9 - the sight of all those writhing squirmy maggots in there put me right off school dinners and has given me a major horror of maggots ever since

Does Raid work on them, like it does on flies?

madusa · 08/08/2009 10:16

does anything work on them?

Our bin isn't due to be collected for another 6 days and there is no room to put any more rubbish and there are maggots dripping onto the floor

Bleach doesn't work and neither does wheel cleaner (acid).

I can't fill the whole wheelie bin with boiling water.

The council don't care as they don't think that it is a health risk

Before anyone says "recycle more", we recycle until our green bin is full and then have to start putting it in the grey bin. We can't have another green bin as the council think that a family of 5 are fine with one bin for 2 weeks worth of recycling. I could fill the green bin every single week. Why don't they take the recycling every week to encourage people to recycle more?

grrr

I am so peed off

wastingmyejumication · 10/08/2009 20:10

Signing in for maggoty bin here too.
Never in my slovenly life have I had a maggoty bin before.
I'm going to give Bin Busters a call I think.

ExtraFancy · 10/08/2009 20:33

Bloody hell! We have fortnightly bin collection here too but I've never had maggots in all the 3 years I've lived here! Yikes at 'rivers of maggots'...how is that possible? How do they get out of the bin?!

JennyPenny22 · 11/08/2009 03:25

Well its 3am and I have just got home from tesco - buying anything that might kill maggots! They were on my bin yesterday but thought it was just a few and although it was gross, didn't do much about it. Tonight I said to DH to put some boiling water over it to make sure it didn't get worse. He did this at about 11pm.

We then noticed (after standing in them for 5 mins!) that there were in fact, maggots covering our driveway! They are the same colour as the bricks which is why we didn't see them! We had even walked some of them in to the house by the time we noticed!!

Have now covered them all in insect killing powder and hope that helps (boiling water wasn't doing much - DH did about 20 kettles and gave up!)

A tip I read online is to put a tray with beer in on the ground and they will all crawl in and drown! Have put 2 out there and will let you know how it goes!

wastingmyejumication · 11/08/2009 11:00

I gave Bin Busters a call, but my crazy nosy --helpful neighbour is cleaning it at the moment.
She mows our front lawn too.

mummiesgirlie100 · 13/08/2009 19:54

wastingmyejumication , binbusters are a waste of money, you want tio think yourself lucky that you have good neighbours that take the time to help cutting your lawn and clean out a maggot infested bin, so i would give them a big thankyou if i was you, i am not that lucky to have such great neighbours like you have, so i think they are a 1 in a million. So be gratefull for all they have done for you.

JennyPenny22 · 14/08/2009 01:10

Right a good tip that works and is cheap and fairly eco too - Get a tray and fill it with a can of cheap beer. The maggots are attracted to it and they go in and drown. My tray filled with maggots overnight!

mummiesgirlie100 · 14/08/2009 02:53

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wastingmyejumication · 14/08/2009 08:54

Where did I mention eco-friendly? I am thankful for what they do.
Name-changing or joining specifically to tell me that you know who I am isn't very nice either frankly.

And coming onto a thread about maggots in bins and telling someone it's disgusting is really rude.

BitOfFun · 14/08/2009 09:31

Mummiesgirlie- that is a disgraceful way to speak to an MNer and totally against the spirit of the boards. I shall be reporting your post, but really you should be ashamed enough to do it yourself.

With regards to the maggots- we are lucky to have weekly collections, but a friend I know sells them to the bait shop! Disgusting but enterprising...

NormaSknockers · 14/08/2009 09:35

Have to agree with BOF, awful way to talk to someone on the boards mummiesgirlie - why did you name change just to post that exactly? Wasting was only jesting.

Another one who gets maggots in the outside bin I let DH deal with though

GetOrfMoiLand · 14/08/2009 09:38

Mummiesgirlie - what the hell are you playing at? That is a threatening post, and also completely inappropriate to say 'I know who you are' like that.

Lizzylou · 14/08/2009 09:41

Mummiesgirlies, what are you on about?
If you do know Wasting that was a very odd way to go about letting her know.
Bad form.

Never had maggots in the bin, but we live in the frozen north so probably why. Bleurgh.

swallowedAfly · 14/08/2009 09:46

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PuppyLoves · 14/08/2009 09:50

BOF - How much does your friend get for her maggots?

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