Dirty and Smelly Wheelie Bins

Never had all this extra expense and worry in the olden days

Pheonix?

Come on Phoenix, you can't leave us hanging like that. Pretty Please. ?

I pour a bucket of hot soapy water and disinfectant into ours and slosh it around with the kitchen broom, tip the bin on its side and let it dry. The broom is cleaned at the same time. I don't like whatever the bin cleaning people spray in the bins - a sickly artificial smell.

Phoenix, that short statement gave me such a laugh! ?

We use a big black bin liner. A new one each time the bin is emptied.

Fell in, did you phoenix? ?

I had an "incident" with our wheelie bin once

Why not Bluebelle if you can afford it and it helps someone build a little business. I personally cannot get right down to the bottom of our big green and grey bins. To do them thoroughly would involve a big brush as well as disinfectant and then how to get them dry quickly.

Mine are steam cleaned for a couple of £s and dry almost immediately. No nasty polutimg chemicals either.

I too would never pay extra to have bins cleaned easy enough with a bit of discinfectsnt We no longer have a dedicated food bin so it all gets wrapped and in the rubbish bin

Jesus, didn’t he have a bit of a reputation for miracles?? Just perfect for that wheelie bin I’d imagine!

We have bins cleaned weekly in summer, fortnightly in winter. Never any maggots

Nanawind your Jesus fluid mde me giggle!

#jeyes fluid.

Yes we have had a maggot bin when we went away and left our then teenage sons in charge ..They forgot to put waste bin out so it was not collected obviously and it was during a very hot spell. When we got back home my husband looked in it and it's contents were moving around so he emptied it all out , debated it and scrubbed it out with Jesus fluid

Not in mine, everything goes into bin bags same as when we just used to put bags out for collection.
Food goes into a separate caddy, all wrapped in newspaper. That bin is washed with disinfectant when needed.

My D has her general waste emptied every 2 weeks has had maggots once, she was horrified.
We have a dedicated food hopper which goes into green, which is garden waste and emptied every week.
Her food goes into general waste, every 2 weeks in this weather??

m careful what I wrap up- I have never had any problems and I refuse to pay extra to have the wheelie bins cleaned. I cannot do it so I am really careful.

Oor bins get cleaned weekly ,I'd hate to think what they'd smell like in this heat if they didn't

Not the general waste but in the small food waste bin, yuk, I scrubbed it out and disinfected it, all okay since, but we have been plagued with flies in the heat so I guess that would explain it.

No!! Perish the thought. We subscribe to a bin cleaning service. Our bin was done on Monday last, and still smells very floral ?.

No but I do put food waste in sealed bags so hopefully nothing gets to it