Hello,
I'm hoping someone here can help.
Last week i took my bin bag out of the bin to find it crawling with moggots - yeugh! I thought they'd all been killed, but this week took the bin bag out to find a fresh crop - or the old ones sprung back to life!
Can anyone out there tell me how to kill maggots for once and for all? There must be a fisherman or fisherman's wife who's had this kind of problem!
Thanks!
With love,
Amber
You poor thing - that horrible. Your bin probably just needs a good wash out with disinfectant and then leave the lid off until it dries.
Are there any meat products going into the bin? If so, it may be worth treble wrapping them before putting them in. It takes one fly seconds to lay thousands of eggs, and hours for maggots to appear - hopefully the bins are 'lifted' before the next stage of evolution. purplepeach makes a good suggestion - and use boiling water to rinse the bin with after disinfecting it with something strong like Jeyes Fluid or Zoflora (which I prefer - better aftersmell!) If it is an outside bin with the problem, get it powerwashed inside and out and wipe out with a cloth covered with disinfectant.
Unfortunately, if you are in an area where your Council only takes your household waste every other week (as ours have been doing for a few years now), then this is going to be a problem, especially in the hot weather. Wrapping meat/fish up 20 times can still cause a maggot problem.
We tend to karcher out our bin and put jeyes fluid in and around the bin area (on the ground) and so far, we have been lucky that the little blighters have stayed away.
But this is going to be a big problem in the future if Councils persist in taking household waste every two weeks (but that's for another thread:()
As an aside, we asked our Council for their advice in wrapping meat/fish in between our bins being collected and do you know what they said? Wrap up your meat/fish remains in lots of paper and keep it in your freezer until the bins are emptied. Oh, that sounds like good advice then!!! - what idiot came up with that idea.
Love
I use boiling water and bleach if this happens.
We are on a trial scheme for the borough where we recycle all our organic waste and it goes in a newspaper wrap and then in a bin with a tight lid. We got maggots three times in the summer so it wasn't too bad, all things considered!
I have had this happen several times, I just spray the bin with fly spray after cleaning it, fish and meat seem to be the biggest cause, coupled with hot humid weather.
Our rubbish is collected every other week too. We use wheelie bin liners and then put the bags of rubbish from kitchen in. Also sprinkle some jeyes bin powder into the bottom of the bin and bottom of liner and thankfully have never had any problems with maggots!
Rachel
We too are now on the 2 weekly collections, I'm all for the recyle thingy but wonder if it would be better if people where given a smaller 'household' waste bin & they where still collected weekly, my bin also had maggots on it last week:eek: and our bins where supposed to get collected on Friday..but shock horror they didn't so for the whole weekend the street was fall of rank, fastering maggot ridden bins.....yestday the council sent out a bin lorry....and would you believe me if I told you that the bin lorry they sent to collect all the missed household waste was infact the recyle van & they still went ahead & emptied the bins into it:banghead:...it begs a question really
xx