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The reduction in rubbish collections has caused public outrage in Britain. Over 150 councils are switching from weekly to fortnightly refuse collections. Will this improve recycling rates as the government has claimed or will it result in mounting piles of rubbish, putting our health at risk?
Binwatch wants to see your bins! Are they overflowing with rubbish? Attracting local vermin? Or perhaps the new system is resulting in a greener approach to your rubbish disposal.
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’Dispatches: Bin Wars’ is on Channel 4 on Mon 24th May at 9pm
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Maggots in my bin!
Here you've got a couple of pictures of my bin, with maggots crawling out of it !!!
Nice, considering that I'm pregnant and already with a small child at home.
What a disgusting thing to find at your house. I've never seen maggots before in my life, I wonder why.
What happened was that the first time they came to collect our rubbish after two weeks instead of one, the bin men came so early that at 7:15am that we were leaving our rubbish out, like we always did, they had already been!
I rang the council help line again and again for a week, they never answered, so we took most of the rubbish to the tip.
And after a few warm days, we found maggots crawling out of the bin !!
If they are not a health issue, why do the councils recommend to pour over them boiling water to kill them?Just let them live, and what would happen then,...?
Welcome to civilized England, next, lets start peeing out of the windows again!
Amaya, from Carlisle
Rich says:
You could always compost it and use it on the garden instead of throwing it away. Or leave the bins out the night before.
Rich says:
...but you can chuck loads of it away, presumably. How wasteful. As you said, it's a health issue, but one entirely of your own causing, and not something you can blame on council incompetance.
Paul says:
I do understand that it is quite a shock when you realise there are maggots in you bin. However maggots only exist there due to the waste not being properly sealed in bags. If you bag your waste properly and double bag any food waste you will not get maggotts, irrrespective of whether the waste has been in your bin for 1 or 2 weeks.
Tobes says:
Who is this dork Rich? Maggots will happily feed and live off of even the smallest amounts o leftover organic waste - be it fish skin and bones or potato skins - as long as its moist! Presumably Rich (who comes over a bit holier than thou 'rich') buts his food pre-processed - and if he does dispose of it, double wraps it in plastic bags, as pre government advice (and completely misses the irony.
Angie(flat_hamster-at-hotmail-dot-com) says:
Its ridiculous to suggest maggots are in the bin because there is too much waste. Rich has been brainwashed like so many others into believing this is for the benefit of the environment, instead of a scheme to generate revenue with the health and safety of people bottom of the list of priorities. At least organic waste biodegrades in landfill, unlike plastic bags wrapped around everything twice. Durr.
Mike says:
We were on the test scheme before anyone else was made to recycle, we told the council time and time again about the maggots in the warmer weather, only a complete idiot would say its because of what you put in your bin because that is the purpose of the bin in the first place.
The reason why maggots turn up in your bin is simple, they are left for two weeks rather than one, they have time to hatch nothing more than that and it will carry on for as long as the councils let it, the silly thing is if you were a shop with maggots all over your loading bay they would shut you down, it a joke.
sarah riddiough(sarahdavison24-at-yahoo-dot-co-dot-uk) says:
I too have just discovered my bin is maggott infested, i bag all waste food, i keep nappies double bagged in a completely seperate bin and my husband cleans our bins off regularily, if the council would just empty the bins weekly then this would not be happening!!!
Ieanette Clark(clark-at-clark7424-dot-fsnet-dot-co-dot-uk) says:
We put all garden and food waste in our green wheelie bins, plus recycle all paper, tins, plastic. As soon as it gets hot we seem to get maggotts+million of flies-totally gross! We do as much as we can and obey the rules set by our local council and when you phone to get help you just get told to use boiling water! They are immune to this Ive tried! We feel that in the summer we should have weekly collections to combat this growing problem. Any tips on killing the ******s????
mat says:
Leave the bin lid closed? If the flies can't get in, they can't lay eggs on anything - no maggots. A bit of bleach or disinfectant spray after collection should clean up any leftover eggs.
Not sure how y'all managing to get maggots. I've *never* seen any in our bins, which are collected fortnightly, and have single-bagged and unbagged food waste (that which doesn't go in the compost) in them, and we live in one of the hottest and driest parts of the country.
Easiest thing to do is just stop worrying about it. Maggots are ugly, but they're safe enough - they won't bite, they won't invade your house, and they're fairly clean. It's not like you have rats or cockroaches or anything really bad.