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?

[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

[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.

[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!

[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.)

[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.

[applbees]

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[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.???

[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!

[IAmALeafOnTheWindWatchHowISoar]

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

[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.

[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.