Maggots in my brown bin!

JupiterKid

Just had the pleasure of discovering that my brown bin is infested with the rotten little feckers. .

I poured two bottles of bleach down into the bin and then used the hose to blast the maggots squirming on the sides of the bin but loads got onto my patio and I tried my best to flush them down the drain.

I'm never ever putting meat into the brown bin again.

Anyone got any sensible suggestions of how to get rid of maggots easily and with as little hassle as possible?

And no - I don't want to eat them!

DirtyBollox

isnt your brown bin for stuff you'd throw onto a compost heap? ie not meat that just rots.

Fr_Dougal

Title sounds like a Lana del Ray song...

admiralofthefleet

do what 99.9% of the rest of us do, dont use the browb bin

HeyThereDeliah

Has the OP got worms?

Bruthal

Just keep them away from uranus

dastardly00

There was a dude on the Ray D'Arcy show a few weeks ago who runs a wheelie bin cleaning service (www.wheelieclean.ie). They could be of help?

tk123

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

do what 99.9% of the rest of us do, dont use the browb bin

+1 We don't use ours for rubbish any more either- I use it to store my motorbike cover when I'm out on the bike :pac:

admiralofthefleet

dastardly00 wrote: »

There was a dude on the Ray D'Arcy show a few weeks ago who runs a wheelie bin cleaning service (www.wheelieclean.ie). They could be of help?

whats your rates?

pablomakaveli

Think positive OP. Thats free fishing bait right there in that bin.

eth0

Petrol. Not bleach

mother_of_two

This is exactly why I do not use brown bin. Disgusting!

Intensive Care Bear

The birds will eat the maggot's in the morning, of course the birds will then die due to the bleach but i'd prefer to be cleaning up dead birds over dead maggots.

3ndahalfof6

when your pink bin becomes infested it is not nice.

NegativeCreep

Use brown bin bags. Use one of the large bags for the wheelie bin and the small bags for the bin in the house. great things so they are. Never seen a maggot in my brown bin which leads me to believe you are all doing it wrong!

dastardly00

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

whats your rates?

Haha, I have no link to that business.

Sky King

They're only maggot's OP. FFS grow a pair!

Then make them fight to the death!

JupiterKid

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Use brown bin bags. Use one of the large bags for the wheelie bin and the small bags for the bin in the house. great things so they are. Never seen a maggot in my brown bin which leads me to believe you are all doing it wrong!

Never heard of "brown" bin bags? Where can you buy these? I presume they're biodegradeable?

I just hope the scummy maggots have been vanquished due to all the trouble I went to this evening!

NegativeCreep

JupiterKid wrote: »

Never heard of "brown" bin bags? Where can you buy these? I presume they're biodegradeable?

I just hope the scummy maggots have been vanquished due to all the trouble I went to this evening!

Yeah they're biodegradable. You can get them anywhere as far as I know. My mam gets them in tesco, centra and superquinn so I assume they're in every shop

druidhill

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Use brown bin bags. Use one of the large bags for the wheelie bin and the small bags for the bin in the house. great things so they are. Never seen a maggot in my brown bin which leads me to believe you are all doing it wrong!

Where can I get these?

Red Pepper

Let them turn into flies and buzz off.

Abi

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Use brown bin bags. Use one of the large bags for the wheelie bin and the small bags for the bin in the house. great things so they are. Never seen a maggot in my brown bin which leads me to believe you are all doing it wrong!

This.

Also, put your brown bin out every time they're being collected, regardless of how little is in it.

Samba

So let me get this straight, the worst waste, rotting organic matter. This gets collected bi-weekly but the non rotting organic waste gets collected weekly.

Genius! (Panda)

If they switched the schedules you'd get people with black bins full of maggots, wouldn't be too long before they started making using of their brown bins. :pac:

Bigger bin and cleaning service should also be provided.

1ZRed

We don't have brown bins 'round my neck of the woods

Run_to_da_hills

JupiterKid wrote: »

Just had the pleasure of discovering that my brown bin is infested with the rotten little feckers. .

I poured two bottles of bleach down into the bin and then used the hose to blast the maggots squirming on the sides of the bin but loads got onto my patio and I tried my best to flush them down the drain.

I'm never ever putting meat into the brown bin again.

Anyone got any sensible suggestions of how to get rid of maggots easily and with as little hassle as possible?

And no - I don't want to eat them!

You could sell them here.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=62

Chucken

Shirly you're not meant to put meat in the brown bin.

LisaLee

These bags are compostable OP, plus they have a liner that fits inside the brown bin. You can order online or get them stocked locally.

http://www.greensax.ie/website/

antodeco

tk123 wrote: »

+1 We don't use ours for rubbish any more either- I use it to store my motorbike cover when I'm out on the bike :pac:

Fantastic idea! I've always been terrified putting mine on the ground incase of stones etc!

mfceiling

Pr1cks the lot of the bin companies...........do you want to reduce the amount of waste you put in the black bin? Yes.

Do you want a handy brown bin for your organic waste? Yes

Do you want to send less waste to landfill? Yes

Do you want this brown bin to be collected separately with your organic waste in it? Yes


Give us money - you're not getting away with recycling foodstuffs for nothing.


Fcuk right off - my brown bin is out the front as good as new - hope somebody burns the fcuking thing at halloween.

Run_to_da_hills

When I lived in Darwin bin maggots were a common sight, if you didn't disinfect and hose out your bin regularly you could guarantee it would be full of maggots within a day or two. A few companies use to go around hosing them out with detergent for a small fee.

K-9

Chucken wrote: »

Shirly you're not meant to put meat in the brown bin.

Nope.


Signed Shirley.

mkdon05

Boiling water kills them. It also cooks them so the birds get a nice meal.

flutterflye

I actually call it the maggot bin, not the brown bin.
Maggots are my ultimate fear - not heights or bears or aids - maggots.
They are the most awful things ever.
If I was queen of the world, I would find a way to make them extinct.
In saying that though, I'm fairly sure they are the reason how all the food turns to compost in the first place - I think they eat it and regurgitate it back or something.
Still - down with maggots.
Ugh, I can barely even bare to type the word.
Lucky for me, I have a husband to deal with it

K-9

mkdon05 wrote: »

Boiling water kills them. It also cooks them so the birds get a nice meal.

Thought that myself but based on no research whatsoever, jeyes fluid failing that. Make sure they aren't in the brown bin while applying it.

Intensive Care Bear

flutterflye wrote: »

I actually call it the maggot bin, not the brown bin.
Maggots are my ultimate fear - not heights or bears or aids - maggots.
They are the most awful things ever.
If I was queen of the world, I would find a way to make them extinct.
In saying that though, I'm fairly sure they are the reason how all the food turns to compost in the first place - I think they eat it and regurgitate it back or something.
Still - down with maggots.
Ugh, I can barely even bare to type the word.
Lucky for me, I have a husband to deal with it

You better stay away from the nope thread then, it includes videos of people in hospital getting maggots removed from their gums and toenails, sweet dreams :P

K-9

1210m5g wrote: »

You better stay away from the nope thread then, it includes videos of people in hospital getting maggots removed from their gums and toenails, sweet dreams :P

Don't maggots help for gangrene and similar illnesses, even blood sucking leeches.

No doubt an urban myth but they apparently do a little good.

flutterflye

1210m5g wrote: »

You better stay away from the nope thread then, it includes videos of people in hospital getting maggots removed from their gums and toenails, sweet dreams :P

Ha! I love that thread actually!
I just super speed scroll past the maggot stuff

Intensive Care Bear

K-9 wrote: »

Don't maggots help for gangrene and similar illnesses, even blood sucking leeches.

No doubt an urban myth but they apparently do a little good.

Yes they do, however some of the vids i have seen have come about from poor hygiene, google primary oral myiasis :eek:

mauzo

1210m5g wrote: »

Yes they do, however some of the vids i have seen have come about from poor hygiene, google primary oral myiasis :eek:

Think Ill give that a miss....but jesus the guy with the maggots crawling around in his mouth...how the hell!?

Sorry going OT!

JupiterKid

As I type this (on my iPhone as Internet and TV are down - thanks UPC) there are dead maggots in bleachy water at the bottom of my brown bin along with ones that are hopefully on their way to maggot heaven. I added woodlice kiler powder, several pots of boiling water and a whole bottle of Pledge wood cleaner Into the brown bin for added effect.

Poured boiling water from the kettle on the maggots writhing on my patio and it didn't seem to kill some of them. .

Someone on a web forum suggested petrol as the ultimate killer of the little yellow f*ckers but I really don't want to risk setting myself and my garden alight.

mauzo

Why didnt you just put on a rubber glove and put them in a bag and bin them?

In someone elses bin obviously ! :P tied nice and tight!

mauzo

flutterflye wrote: »

I actually call it the maggot bin, not the brown bin.
Maggots are my ultimate fear - not heights or bears or aids - maggots.
They are the most awful things ever.
If I was queen of the world, I would find a way to make them extinct.
In saying that though, I'm fairly sure they are the reason how all the food turns to compost in the first place - I think they eat it and regurgitate it back or something.
Still - down with maggots.
Ugh, I can barely even bare to type the word.
Lucky for me, I have a husband to deal with it

Couldnt have said spiders? How random...bears or aids

K-9

JupiterKid wrote: »

Someone on a web forum suggested petrol as the ultimate killer of the little yellow f*ckers but I really don't want to risk setting myself and my garden alight.

That may have been After Hours.

A second opinion is advised on AH* T&C's apply.



*Are you fecking mad.

flutterflye

mauzo wrote: »

Couldnt have said spiders? How random...bears or aids

Spiders aren't as scary as bears or aids.

Kerrigooney

JupiterKid wrote: »

As I type this (on my iPhone as Internet and TV are down - thanks UPC) there are dead maggots in bleachy water at the bottom of my brown bin along with ones that are hopefully on their way to maggot heaven. I added woodlice kiler powder, several pots of boiling water and a whole bottle of Pledge wood cleaner Into the brown bin for added effect.

Poured boiling water from the kettle on the maggots writhing on my patio and it didn't seem to kill some of them. .

Someone on a web forum suggested petrol as the ultimate killer of the little yellow f*ckers but I really don't want to risk setting myself and my garden alight.

Jesus Christ,don`t let any of that concoction touch your skin...it`d be like that scene in Robocop when the bloke melts.

ArtyC

flutterflye wrote: »

Spiders aren't as scary as bears or aids.

Haha!! True..... By the way I feel the same way about maggots!!! They scare the ****e out of me more than anything. Just turn my gut!!!!