Maggots

[Janimal]

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:x :x :x Poor you- I hate maggots.

Good luck in exterminating them. :cheers:

 

[Jan Doherty]

Hilarious, I googled "How to kill Maggots" and there are websites devoted to it (w00t)

Anyway boiling water is the answer apparently and double bagging rubbish

You just wouldnt believe the amount of people who have problems with maggots in bins.

I will keep you posted, this could be a crusade

 

[Nicola]

It doesn't look like Aggie's tip for freezing food waste is going down very well then

Haven't had maggots yet...but I'll wait to see what fortnightly collections brings.

 

[Julie D]

we now have

BLUE bin for all recyclable stuff...glass plastic paper tins (fortnightly)

GREEN bin for garden waste, grass cuttings (alternate fortnights)

which leaves the PURPLE bin for landfill stuff (weekly)

I've noticed this is only half full and the recyclable bin is always full

that means there's too much packaging, I'll go mad if they reduce the landfill bin to fortnightly re above reasons.

For those k9'ers who would like a smaller bin you can just ask the council for a slim one, elderly people, singles and people with not much waste can have these

got to say my drive was built for cars and NOT to store council bins on, feel sorry for the people who have to store them under the window or by the front door, IT'S ALL GONE MAD :rant:

 

[quintessence]

We had maggots in our bin last year and found boiling water to be the most effective, it's useless ringing our council for advice they just do not want to know. We tried Jeyes Fluid, I can't stand the smell of it but would have put up with it to get rid of them, but the boiling water seemed to work best. We triple wrap any bones, but try not to have anything with bones in to eliminate the problem.

Jenny

 

[zilloot]

We have a fortnightly collection for household rubbish, once a month for paper and card and everything else I take to the bins myself (plastic, glass etc.)

I've found that I package things much smaller, tie knots in loose things and wrap thing up really tight to make sure there's enough space to last two weeks. This annoys me because it all takes EVEN LONGER to break down in the tips but what else can I do? I take loads of bags from supermarkets and all food waste is sometimes triple bagged to keep the smell - and I HATE the fact that all that plastic is going to take years and years to break down... but, given the maggot situation what else can we do??? The flipping council are shooting themselves in the foot :rant:

As for the maggots... how are the flies getting in there to lay the eggs Jan? Maybe there's a hole?? I checked our bin when we got it and luckily the flies can't get in and it's never left open (it never overflows because I pack it real tight )

Boiling water works though (we've had maggots in the dog-poo bin - they must have been sitting on the poo when I gathered it up.. again in supermarket bags ) Citronella spray might keep the flies away :blink:

I bought a heap of re-usable bags from the supermarket but I never use them because I need the plastic ones to bag all the rubbish :blink: :teehee:

The councils are lazy, selfish and extremely stupid... but, hey, they're not going to listen to public opinion are they?

 

[urchin]

I take a ridiculous amount of pride in the fact that i only throw away 1 bin bag of rubbish a fortnight.....but they would collect it weekly if i needed it.

I feel envious of those of you with wheelie bins tho, I have to put out black bags - which means I have to keep them in the flat til binday as if you put them out early (apart from looking foul) the magpies open them up and throw your rubbish all over the street :x

I recycle absolutely everything I can, and when I have a garden (fingers crossed for my house purchase to go through in the next fortnight) I will compost all veg matter - and i plan to get a dog poo wormery too!

left over cooked food either goes in the dogs, the cats, down the loo (if i've left it too long in the fridge!) ..... its only the odd thing like a chicken carcass that needs to go in the bin, and I guess I need to think a bit about getting an airtight bin to put outside - if its airtight no flies can get in, right :thumbsup:

 

[billyboy45]

Our council only picks up the bins every other week and in the summer after a hot day if you get a shower of rain in the evening the bin gets covered with maggots. They are hatching inside the bin and then crawling out :x :x Does anyone know what I can out in the bin to kill them?

It really is vile. Our estate is like Bin city. blue, Green and brown bins and no where to put them :rant:

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Boiling water is by far the best,and almost free.either that,or take em down the fishing tackle shop,and sell them.

 

[Seraphina]

Sorry. but I have to laugh. When i lived in the country we did not get our garbage removed, full stop. Garbage had to be taken to the tip some 20km away, and they opened only once a week, and you had to pay. Simply, we did not have any food scraps; they were fed to the animals or composted, and I would rinse off any food packaging in the dishwashing water after I washed up. Cans and glass were stored separately under the carport and then taken for recycling, and papers were burned.

Now, I have my garbage removed fortnightly, we also have a recycle bin and green waste bin, nd i have a compost as well as worm farm.

All that goes in my bin is bit of plastic like my dog meat wrappings, which I rinse especially in the summer, or it would stink, attract flies and we would end up with maggots. :x

 

[Nicola]

That's an interesting response. We've got so used to just being able to open a bin and throw something away and expect someone to come and clean it away after us. Yes we pay council tax, and feel we often don't get value for money, and money is spent on seemingly daft things that the council see fit to do as one project or another. But I do think we need to stop and think and find ways to try and reduce/recycle our waste and stop expecting the council to do everything for us in the waste department, no questions asked!

I used to chuckle at my mum's OH. He recycles his weekly bath water in the garden, cuts cereal packets into squares and reuses them for some purpose or other, always adds kitchen scraps to the compost heap (and has been doing this for years now). He generates little in the way of waste. He is of the era where people just didn't throw things out.

OK...it's inevitable with all the packaging that we will generate waste today, but maybe we should try and avoid buying food that is so heavily packaged (for those that can easily access local shops...not possible or practical for a lot of families I know!). It can be done....using local butchers, deli's, green grocers. Yes, it's a hassle at times. Cooked food waste.....mine either goes to the dogs, or down the loo if it's sloppy waste. With bones etc, well......maybe an airtight container somewhere out of sight until it's time to empty it into the bin. It's not impossible. Dog poo...down the manhole or in park dog bins or kicked into the undergrowth and ditches where no one is ever likely to tread in it. Cardboard can be composted as far as I remember. I've certainly shredded cardboard and chucked it in the compost.

Nappies...hmmm....I have heard of solutions to this, but I'll probably be 'virtually' lynched, and I'm not sure I'd be keen to back to the good old days either if I had kids :b

I really must get off my soap box.......I keep taking this away from the original thread...but it's something I feel strongly about. Sorry!

 

[~elizabeth~]

I was so glad when we got wheelie bins, not that we need them ourselves particularly we only just manage 1 bag a week, but because the foxes used to rip up get into everyone else's and spread cooked bones around our garden, leaving plenty of bits around for the rats in places Gelert couldn't scavenge from :x

All our food scraps go either to the dogs or the chickens. Any paper or cardboard goes for chicken bedding, then on to the compost heap. I never put anything potentially edible on a heap, if the dogs didn't take it, the foxes would before the rats had a look in.

All glass jars and bottles are recycled for jam or winemaking (and I raid other people's boxes for these too :b ) Our recycling bin has only 2 tins and a few milk containers a fortnight.

The problem we have is that our neighbours DO produces masses of rubbish (mainly polystyrene packaging from their electrical business), they've taken to burning it in the back garden which is unpleasant and illegal. We have now asked them to stop, but I harbour the depressing suscpicion they may just fly tip it instead.

If we ever do have anything unpleasant to dispose of (e.g. very occasionally a dead bird) we wrap it up several times over to make sure it's well-sealed before putting it in the main bag/bin.

 

[LasVegasNo1]

We have a black bin for 'normal' refuse (weekly collection), a brown bin for 'green' waste (fortnightly collection) and a green box for paper, tin and glass (fortnightly collection). We have no side access so the black and brown bins have to sit out front in the heat which produces a not so pleasant odour as you can imagine! The brown bin however is very handy though because they will take small rodent bedding so I can dispose of the rat/gerbil waste in that, also the rats and gerbils chew up all our cardboard so that goes in the brown bin too :thumbsup: We dread the day our black bins go on fortnightly collection.... it WILL happen we're sure :angry: O and the Council won't collect plastic because it's not 'cost effective', the jokers - and they reckon fortnightly collections are not about saving money! EVERYTHING recyclable should be collected by them if they're serious about this! :rant:

 

[Karen-Coral]

We've got a council 'dog poo' bin across close by to our house........

If we have any chicken carcasses or similar..the bin gets it during 'hot weather'

They'll remove it one way or another.......we pay enough bloody council tax!

Many a time also-we take our own rubbish down to the tip-we're lucky enough to have a trailer-many others don't...........

The fortnightly collection STINKS literally........... :rant:

Karen

 

[Crystal]

we're really suffering down here because of the fortnightly landfill rubbish collection - i'm all for recycling but have never had so many maggots and I hate them. i do double wrap and also use Jeyes bin powder - scrub bins out after collection then douse with Jeyes bin powder then as every double wrapped sack goes in I put more bin powder on. I dread to think how bad they'd be if I didn't do this - I apologised to the bin man last week - but he told me it's very common now!!

 

[midlanderkeith]

That's an interesting response. We've got so used to just being able to open a bin and throw something away and expect someone to come and clean it away after us. Yes we pay council tax, and feel we often don't get value for money, and money is spent on seemingly daft things that the council see fit to do as one project or another. But I do think we need to stop and think and find ways to try and reduce/recycle our waste and stop expecting the council to do everything for us in the waste department, no questions asked!
I used to chuckle at my mum's OH. He recycles his weekly bath water in the garden, cuts cereal packets into squares and reuses them for some purpose or other, always adds kitchen scraps to the compost heap (and has been doing this for years now). He generates little in the way of waste. He is of the era where people just didn't throw things out.

OK...it's inevitable with all the packaging that we will generate waste today, but maybe we should try and avoid buying food that is so heavily packaged (for those that can easily access local shops...not possible or practical for a lot of families I know!). It can be done....using local butchers, deli's, green grocers. Yes, it's a hassle at times. Cooked food waste.....mine either goes to the dogs, or down the loo if it's sloppy waste. With bones etc, well......maybe an airtight container somewhere out of sight until it's time to empty it into the bin. It's not impossible. Dog poo...down the manhole or in park dog bins or kicked into the undergrowth and ditches where no one is ever likely to tread in it. Cardboard can be composted as far as I remember. I've certainly shredded cardboard and chucked it in the compost.

Nappies...hmmm....I have heard of solutions to this, but I'll probably be 'virtually' lynched, and I'm not sure I'd be keen to back to the good old days either if I had kids :b

I really must get off my soap box.......I keep taking this away from the original thread...but it's something I feel strongly about. Sorry!

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whats wrong with terry towelling nappies, i paid £1 for 8 best quality nappies fer my two kids., cant you still buy them these days

 

[Seraphina]

whats wrong with terry towelling nappies, i paid £1 for 8 best quality nappies fer my two kids., cant you still buy them these days

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I think they may be little bit more nowadays :lol:

I was lucky, my best friend bought me a year subscription to Nappy Wash Service, and we kept it up after that.

Never bought a nappy, never washed a nappy - beautiful. :thumbsup:

Can you get worm farms in UK? They are great, not only the worms will gobble up all your food scraps, some shreded news papers and dog poo, you end up with the best fertiliser I ever came across. My worm farm is made such a way rats and mice cannot get in. I also compost newspapers and some grass and soft shrub cuttings.

We should not be wasting our land for dumping stuff that can be dealt with other ways.

 

[Jan Doherty]

I could hear the maggots in the bin last night crunching and munching :x

Luckily bin has just been emptied and will be cleaned later today.

 

[Rae]

We have a 'normal' bin collected every fortnight but we have a large brown bin for food scraps that is colected every week so we've never had a problem with maggots. It does pong tho. :x I'm sure this was a reaction to exactly what you are describing Jan so I'd be asking your council to supply the weekly food collection bins asap.

I'd like to know more about a dog poo wormery (w00t) 8) :x

 

[Jessr123]

Just been looking up wormeries as it seems like a really good idea.

The net says you can't put poo in them if it contains chemicals to kill parasites (ie if you have just wormed your dog) but you can put loadsa stuff in them...I can see a shopping trip coming on.

 

[~elizabeth~]

I'd like to know more about a dog poo wormery  (w00t)   8)   :x

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Don't know about ones specifically for this use but here is a normal one:

can-o-worms wormery

I have a slug-ery for mine at the bottom of the garden - they gobble it up very quickly I do have a very long garden though.