Help I have maggots in my bin!!!!

[Rach32]

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???

And she would be hunting through Mumsnet for clues as to my identity why?

Ok!

I'm sorry mummiesgirlie but you are bang out of order dragging this onto a public forum & saying horrible things & making snide little digs. Actually, I'm not sorry, you're passing comments that are uncalled for.

How? Why would she be looking on Mumsnet?

mummies - you are a total loon, bugger orf.

wasting - hang in there bud, as you can see, half of MN (including me) have maggot infested bins.

Not worth it Wasting really she's not, just let her stew in her own juice, come on.

Why the fuck was my message deleted?

There was nowt outrageous on it!

Why hasn't MNHQ banned her by now? Bad form really. They should be hot on the heels of things like this esp. after the Cod episode.

Wasting shes winding you up, walk away, you're just playing into her hands

Oh my goodness, what a nasty, mean, pathetic woman you must be mummie. Coming onto an internet forum to bully, yes bully another person can only mean that you lead an uninspiring, lonely existance...

Or you are a spotty 15 year old who has no friends and even the school geek refused to kiss you.

You chose which it is, but just do it quietly and away from mumsnet please.

She's been banned now.

Why on earth was this resurrected though? OP was from 2006!

Maggots are perennial.

Oh my god! Didn't notice it was so old! I guess somebody must have searched for maggots as they had a problem and then once one person posted it bumped it and carried it on. I posted on here about maggots and didn't notice the date.

I can't see the deleted messages obviously, but can I get this straight? She was your neighbour? And was offended by the first thing your wrote on this thread? Then took it too far?

If your bin is full after a week, do you not think maybe you have too much rubbish rather than not enough collections?
Since my area brought in (steep) bin charges and pay by weight, there has been a massive increase in recycling and a huge decrease is rubbish going to landfill. We recycle everything, reuse, reduce, purposefully buy less packaging etc. We have a standard size wheelie bin and are a family of 4 (almost 5) with 1 in nappies full time and another at night.
We put out our black bin on average every 5 weeks. Its not easy to suddenly change your habits, but it seems to me that most people really need to do something about how much rubbish they produce. I can't believe so many people need to put a full black bin out every single week!

And boke at the maggots!

I could reduce my rubbish in my bin .. by fly tipping and if I was ever charged for my rubbish (on top of council tax) I would resort to just that.

What areas have introduced this charging?

My bin isn't full every week. It probably would be if we used disposables. Fortnightly collections are a very good reason to use cloth nappies.

Even if the bins only half full, it's still going to be sat there for a fortnight.

I fill a wheeley bin up with rubbish fortnightly and I fill a wheely bin (same size as rubbish wheely bin) with recycling and normally have recycling that won't go in the bin and I have to leave by the side of the bin for the bin men.

I do more than my bit for recyclingdh makes weekly trips to the bottle/paper banks as well.

I still have a full rubbish bin every fortnight.

If you are putting out recyclable materials to go to landfill I don't think you are doing enough, to be honest.
Not to be confrontational, but I think there is an attitude that your rubbish is someone elses problem, that the council should deal with, yo just happen to make it. You need to change the attitude, not the method of bin collection. Buy products with less packaging, compost your food waste, reuse what you can, if you have more stuff to recycle, bring it to the local bring centre.
I'm by no means an eco-warrior, but I think most people need to think less about the inconvenience or otherwise of their bins and mmore about where the rubbish that they have created goes to, and the effect on everyone on the mountains of garbage we all create.

You'd dump your rubbish in the street Puppy?
I'm just surprised that you can make so much rubbish to have a problem, we don't have anything like that amount of crap.

I'm in Ireland, we don't have council tax as such, we pay for all kinds of seperate things! In my area the bins are privatised, and we choose the pay by weight option as it is cheaper when we recycle so much.
Perhaps it is the provisions that were put in place when all these charges were brought in. We have bottle, can and clothing banks around the corner. If you buy an electrical appliance, the seller has to take your old one to dispose of it. If you buy large items, such as furniture etc, you can bring all of the packaging back to the shop for them to dispose of. There are recycling centres around that take garden waste, hazardous materials, all plastic, card, paper etc. Our green bin takes plastics and aluminium as well as paper and card.

So all we have in out black bin is nappies and food waste (and only that because our area has no brown bins yet, many do, or a garden as we would compost it). So our black bin goes out every 5-6 weeks. Its easy once its a widespread change.

You're not supposed to put cooked food in the compost though are you?

I don't drive which makes it harder to take things to recycling centres, though we will be visiting the dump to get rid of broken furniture and textiles soon.

You don't need an overflowing bin to get maggots though.