Nappies Causing Maggots

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Can someone please help...

This is the second time we've gotten maggots, the only thing I can put it down to is this has started since having a baby therefore creating a mountain of nappies lol.

After the first time I bought a Tommee Tippee nappy bin thinking that would help due to the individual wrapping and being slightly scented but it hasn't. Im not sure what to do going forward...

I'm also not sure what to do to keep it at bay as we have another week until bin day so I know it is going to be horrendous by then 😬 I know bleach and hot water is the trick but I don't want to fill up the bin with liquid whilst there is rubbish in it.

Any advice would be great appreciated🙏🏼

Washable nappies. We used for this reason as bin only collected monthly, so it would stink.
worked really well

If available in your Borough, call and pay to have it removed early. Think it costs us around 60 quid. We do this sometimes before going on holiday

Washable nappies are great. No maggots, just a washing line of lovely fresh nappies!

Also, they are more effective at containing poo.

Tip loads of bicarb in and tightly close the lid. Or bin buddy. It's gross I know!

dont you use nappy sacks

Another vote for cloth nappies! Far fewer poosplosions too.

Our council do a weekly collection of sposies (we've had to buy another bin though to put them in) as our general waste is monthly 🤢 hoping to transition to cloth when our daughter is big enough for the AIO stash we've got

My friend bought washable nappies and used them once they were such a time consuming palaver and made her feel like she was stuck in the 50's Housewife pre feminist nightmare

She also complained once that every time she took her finger out of her babies mouth she'd start crying. We suggested a dummy She relented having been anti dummy realising she'd been a bit precious.

Just use individual nappy sacks. I've never had maggots.

@HappiDaze - 1950s housewife? Doesn’t she have a washing machine? They literally take 1 min to load machine, then 5 mins to hang on drying rack every 2 days. And dh did half the ‘chore’.
Never had nappy leak either

I don’t think it is as simple as throwing them in the washing machine, is it? Not if they have poo in them.

Echoing the washable nappies.

Pooey breastfed nappies just go straight into the washing machine.

Weaned pooey nappies - poos get plopped into the loo at the end of the day or at the time then into the wash for a pre wash.

Then every second day do a main wash of the above. System is pretty simple, doesn't stink (particulatly if you flush poos away asap) and certainly no maggots!! Absorbed blow out poos of my second and third babies so much better than my first who was in disposables.

We've spent £300 total on nappies for two kids birth to toilet training, which is so much cheaper than disposables.

With disposable nappies, are you tipping poo into the loo before wrapping?

Also, keeping the bin lid tightly closed?

I've never had maggots, so something is going wrong somewhere.

Is all waste bagged and knotted before going in the bin?

Maggots are baby insects, often flies. If you can manage to keep flies out of your bin then there won’t be any maggots

@GodDammitCecil - yes. Newborn to weaning nappies go straight into machine as water soluble. After you just plop poop into toilet ( but that was 1 poop per day on average, the rest just wee). So most just go in mesh lined nappy bin, every 2 days lift entire mesh liner out and that and all nappies in machine without touching

Come on, I’ve had reusable nappies for my lockdown baby and the only reason it worked was because we were in lockdown no1 - they are so much more faffy than disposables, even stuffing the liners into a pile of them for the next day takes time.

Plus I found because I washed them with mio together, I was being wasteful with washes as I was putting washes on with 3/4 nappies rather than a full load.

as soon as lockdown opened up I switched, containers with cloth wipes in a nappy bag after a day out with an actual shitstorm was not for me - carrying around a big bag of shit rags is far more likely to attract flies and therefore maggots.

Is this something that is actially a problem for most people? (Genuine question)

We have NEVER had this and i have an 18m old...
We put just put mappies in dog bags rather than nappy sacks and into the bin which is emptied regularly.

Is this your outside bin? Does the lid not close properly?

Cloth nappies don't smell or attract flies when placed into a bucket with Nappisan with a tight lid to soak.

A mix of cloth nappies at home and disposable for outings, when near bins, can work.

@eatsleepfarmrepeat - no idea, but we used all in one tots bots, and just added liner when I put on. Ds was also a lockdown baby. We used 2 years until toilet trained. Anything dirty out and about just went in a small zipped wet bag, no smell, you aren’t getting maggots in one day out, maggots are from flies laying eggs in open unsealed things and breading after days/ weeks. Not a dirty cloth for 3 hrs

Is your bin in the sun or shade? Of it's in a sunny spot it will warm up and get smelly and attract flies. Make sure you clean it in between bin collections.

Spray fly spray into the bin.

Does your Council offer a food waste collection service? Are you sure there is no food waste in there to attract flies?
What about pets? Do you have a cat or a dog? Flies are more likely to lay eggs on pet poop or leftover pet food than a folded nappy secure in a nappy sack I would have thought.

Is this your indoor or outdoor bin?

We used to put poos down the loo so the bin would be less smelly. We bagged the nappies up too (although I can see you do this).

are you separating food waste? And definitely recommend reusable nappies and wipes, when at home at least - loads on FB marketplace