Is there anything I can stick in my wheelie bin to kill the maggots in there?

[schnapps]

YUK! Just went to out something in my bin and found loads of maggots in there! I nearly thew up, really don't hink I can deal with it my emptying it etc. Is there anything I can just chuck in to kill them off?

[Allofaflumble]

I think you get maggots if you put left over meat products in the bin, bones and skin etc. My cat leaves a lot of his food and I can see flies have been hovering over it so I keep a container in the freezer with a nappy sack liner (for frugality) and place any meat bits in there until the day of collection, then just tip the frozen mass into the bin. It really helps avoid them.

Once I was looking after someone's house and had to put their food bin out and the entire thing was crawling with maggots 30 litres of them! I could barely sleep for a week thinking about it.

[cdtaylornats]

Where I live they collect food waste weekly and other stuff on alternate weeks. But the collections run from 07:00 to 21:45. That's okay at the moment but when Winter sets in it means they will be working in the dark for the first 2 hours and the last 3, moving bin lorries through streets with everybody home from work. I predict my council tax going up just to pay insurance claims.

[IAmALeafOnTheWindWatchHowISoar]

This is a ZOMBIE thread. It was started 10 years ago. I doubt anyone on it is around now.

[bloomburger]

Get yourself a waste disposal unit dotted and munch up all the food waste. The thought of having a small bin full of rotting waste food in my kitchen makes me want to throw up and I'd probably just set fire to a bu if there were maggots!

[yvonnecollyer]

THIS IS UNECCSEPTIBLE.MAKING ME VOMIT 2.AND TO ADD TO MY DISCUST,MY NAIGHBOUR PUTS HER DIRTY LITTER TRAY IN THE BIN.CANT STAND IT.BUT WHERE ELS CAN SHE PUT IT.???

[applbees]

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[2mum]

Fingers crossed i havent yet seen a ny maggots in my bin but im sure there could well be. What peeves me off more is not the fact that the bins are only emptied fortnightly in my area. Its the fact the council have said one black bin per household per fortnight. Theres 4 of us and my ds is still in nappies. My recycle bin is emptied once a fortnight and its always full to the brim. My black bins get emptied tomorrow and ive already a full bin and 2 black binbags full of rubbish as well. I dont know whether to leave the black bags out as i cant see them lifting loose bags. Its really blooming a pain in the butt.

[Bucketsofdinosaurs]

So how come you get maggots exactly? Do they eat through the black sacks? Honest question because my council does the normal waste collection weekly so I know sod all but various family members live in a fortnightly area and I've never heard anyone mention maggots. I wish ours would go alternately with the recycling collection (that comes fortnightly.)

[PeachyClairHasBadHair]

my friend down the road (same council) gets 2 recycling bins and two wheelie bins, I get one of each and the cow next door sticks all her drud in there because she fills hers up with whatever. There's two of them using it as a second home, 5 of us full time here. BAH! And they don't tkae anything excess either. Always ours, btw- and we're the only family here; next door is a single chap, like wise either sides (new family coming tho I hear- yay). So it is doubly annoying.

I did hear she has been whinging about having 'us' (ie a family with a disabled child) on her nice street, but she moved here 6 months ago and we'd already been here a year. Double Pah!

[scampadoodle]

our council collects food waste for compost, which is great - you have a small bin for your kitchen which you decant into a bigger bin outside & that's the one they empty. I was really enthusiastic about this until the hot weather & I opened the inside bin to find it heaving with maggots - this was the one IN THE KITCHEN!!!!! Eww!
I now take waste straight out to our own compost bin.

[mousiemousie]

Increase the council tax by 10%, decrease rubbish collections by 50%

Isn't it great. Surely weekly collection is only civilised? Can't believe the maggot scenario - you poor thing

[essbee]

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[themoon66]

Now you see.... am really tempted to go all ranty again, even though I'm stone cold sober. Why SHOULD we have to pay to get bins de-maggotted when they are only in such a bad way coz the council are not doing the job we are paying them to do in the first place?? If we have to pay 3 quid to get the bin cleaned, then we should get 3 quid off the damn council tax bill. Grrrrr

[Twinkie1]

I get mine disinfected by a sweet old guy who comes every week after the bin has been emptied - and just for luck and because I am anal I put a layer of jeyes fluid in the bottom after he has cleaned it out.

Have a look in your Yellow Pages - you may be able to find something like it - I pay £2 a week so not a huge amount not to have to deal with the vile little critters!!

[Radley]

We have our bins done once a month in winter and every week in summer, it costs 3.00 a pop and I prefer the smell of bleach etc to the smell of rotting food, cat litter any day.

[hub2dee]

Greeny - we had a flyer through the door from a firm / blokey who cleans your bin every x weeks for y pounds and they power wash / sterilise / bleach (whatever). Maybe someone in your neck of the woods does this ? Might help your situation.

I do ours with the power washer. It is not my favourite job.

[themoon66]

Oh dear. I know i've had too much vodka when I get all strident.

[themoon66]

Tis the thin end of the wedge. Remember, Hitler only got voted in coz he made the trains run on time!

[themoon66]

rant away fussymum. I reckon this is how revolutions start!!! And they bloody well deserve it.

[fussymummy]

Where we live we have fortnightly wheely bin
collections.
One week the green bin, next week the black/grey bin.
We also have 2 paper bins and in some areas near us they've started to introduce one for plastic and tins.
We'll get these soon.
How many bins can they expect us to have sitting outside our houses????

On top of this my partner also has to make regular trips to the local waste disposal site to get rid of the excess waste that we couldn't fit in the bins.

We don't want black sacks outside the house as well!!!!!

Sorry everyone, but i feel better for that!!!

[themoon66]

And... while I'm in rant mode... if they want to collect the bins only half the times they should, they can damn-well have only half the council tax off me

[themoon66]

I cannot understand the minds of the management who decide that a fortnightly bin collect is ok. WTF are they thinking??? Those of us with these stupid bloody fortnightly collections should ALL write letters the the appropriate managers in the waste departmeents of the councils. If we dont get our weekly collections re-instated, then we take our bags of F**ing maggots round to their offices and chuck them in!!!

Well that's my opinion anyhow.

[dmo]

wait till bin men have been and stick a power washer in it that should get the little buggers out
dirty dirty things and what do they turn into flys! wonderful should all be killed at birth

[Greensleeves]

It must be horrible for the bin men

We have had this problem lately too - I only found out as I went to the wheely bin and opened it to find about 200 dead ones in it. I have a MAJOR, DEBILITATING phobia - a really serious phobia of them. I vomited and cried, then vomited again, and have not been near the bin since. It turns out poor dh has been "managing" the problem for weeks without telling me, going out before I got up to spray the edges of the bin with fly spray because they were trying to crawl out

I think it's horrific and unacceptable - WHY can't we have bins collected weekly instead? We recycle as much as we can. It's horrible. I won't walk past our bins now if I can help it.