We always wrap everything up in newspaper which is easily compostable but in the last fortnight, I wrapped some meat juice spillage into some and this was the sight that greeted DB when he went to empty it:
Wednesday 17 June 2020
Maggots - ugh!
At the moment, our dustbin men are not emptying the food compost bin each week. Instead we are being asked to put the food which normally goes into it, into our normal bins, which only get emptied fortnightly. As you can imagine, this can normally be quite smelly by then.
We always wrap everything up in newspaper which is easily compostable but in the last fortnight, I wrapped some meat juice spillage into some and this was the sight that greeted DB when he went to empty it:
Another week and we reckon a whole cloud of flies would have erupted out of it. The bin has now been emptied, cleaned out thoroughly and dried in the sun.
We always wrap everything up in newspaper which is easily compostable but in the last fortnight, I wrapped some meat juice spillage into some and this was the sight that greeted DB when he went to empty it:
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Urgh. I am so glad we still have food waste collection here.
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I hope ours returns soon.
DeleteOh gosh, what a horrific discovery :-(
ReplyDeleteThank goodness for our chickens and compost bins, no food waste goes in the bins or to the council. But I had an eruption of bluebottle type flies for two days in the polytunnel just after it got really hot, so something had obviously laid eggs in there a while ago ... yuk, it was like something out of a horror movie.
I won't mention THAT to potential buyers ;-)
DS and DDiL came home from work one day, to find such a cloud erupting from their kitchen bin.
DeleteWe only get a green bin (for all household waste including food) and a blue bin (for recycling) emptied fortnightly alternately. I always have to double bag anything food related as in this hot weather we soon get maggots. We can also pay for a brown bin (for garden waste - £30.00 for the year) if we wanted one which is also emptied on the same week as blue, but we prefer to take the garden waste to the local tip.
ReplyDeleteWe have three wheelie bins, one for general waste, one for recycling, one for gardening waste (paid for), plus a smallish food caddy which was emptied weekly. The wheelies are fortnightly.
DeleteI live in a hot climate all food waste is frozen to be taken out on bin day and desposed of, or we have stacks of maggots.
ReplyDeleteThat’s a very good idea.
DeleteNot nice, makes me appreciate the cooler temperatures here.
ReplyDeleteIndeed. Cooler weather always easier.
DeleteWe don’t have a food caddy yet. Although our council has a good recycling plant and our rubbish is incinerated to produce energy, they have been a bit tardy on the food waste side of things. Having said that, we don’t actually have too much food waste, which is probably just as well!
ReplyDeleteSame here, usually just onion waste which I don’t compost. Some people’s bins must honk as they don’t bag or wrap the food and basically just slops pour out when the bins get emptied. Poor bin man.
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