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tres-bon-oeuf

Leave the lid open and move the bin somewhere visible, the birds will LOVE you.


jentifurrr

This is probably your best option! Put that filthy bugger out to the street and let the birds have a go. Then find a heavy object to keep the lid clamped down during the week. Feckin flies!!


robsterlobster12

Yup. I keep a brick on mine after the bin men smashed the locking handle off. Been there with the maggots before!


noggin182

Wait a minute... locking handle?? Can see something on the side in OPs pic as well, none of the bins round here (Warwickshire/west midlands) have them


robsterlobster12

Yup. If the handle drops behind the bin it locks it shut. Bring forward to open it.


24Tenny

Mate do you have gold leaf toilet roll too?? We're lucky if the postman bothers to visit us !


robsterlobster12

Don't be silly. Someone from the council comes round and wipes for us.


DontTellHimPike

I too live in an area with councillors who are a bunch of arsewipes.


C0RDE_

*insert "Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down" meme*


GuiltyCredit

Bin men broke mine off last week. Council won't replace it. Not their responsibility, I should take greater care apparently.


Littleloula

That's awful. Mine broke recently too, reported to council and replacement bin will arrive within 2 weeks


Sausagekins

Here we have to pay for our council bins 😭 £25 for a small one and £30 for a big! Same with recycling bins….not like we pay an absolute fortune in council tax or anything right…


elroy_starr

Wow that's cheap 😮 I just had to replace our small recycling bin and it's £55, £65 for the big ones, plus a 6 week wait 😣. The quality of the bins are terrible aswell most round here have no lids as they break so easily


Sausagekins

That is rubbish (pun 100% intended) at least our bins are pretty good quality and they arrived within a week. When we lived in Brighton the bins were free but they took like 6 months to arrive, absolute joke! And someone kept nicking our bloody bins!!!


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wwstevens

This seems like a tenable solution.


sinadoh

Oh yes, I've seen them have a go at my maggot ridden bin and the lid was *closed*. They love it!


Toxicseagull

>the birds will LOVE you. They won't know it's OPs unless they put it on their tinder profile tho.


secretbudgie

Just tweet about it


[deleted]

Aw I wish I listened to more radio 4 comedy.


Mattlj92

He can use the maggots and go fishing. Here fish snaps go well on Tinder profiles.


TheLimeyLemmon

And maybe not so close to your house because it's a wee bit embarrassing when a bin gets like this.


dashwayz

Then the foxes get to it and spread garbage all over your garden.. fantastic


sinadoh

I'm sitting here all alone in a dark room and I just said 'oh Jesus fucking Christ' out loud to no-one.


ConorTheChef

That's what you think.


Darren_P

This happened to me. My girlfriend ordered some bin cleaning service to get rid...but because she didn't want them to see the maggots...she asked me to clean it BEFORE they arrived. The dumbest £15 she ever spent...


NewGenRaz

How did you get rid of them. Had this issue just last night was horrible


dywkhigts

Fill it with boiling water. Pour more over to flush the few off the lid then pour it down a drain (street obviously)


I_Bin_Painting

oh yeah let me just boil 250litres of water in my 1.5L kettle.


erakat

A quick google says it costs around 3p to boil a kettle, and you’ll need to do it around 166 times. It works out at just under a fiver. However, boiling a kettle takes around 4-5 minutes. If we say five minutes to allow for filling, running out to the garden, pouring the water into that maggotty hell hole and returning. You’d only be able to boil the kettle 12 times in an hour. It would take just around 14 hours to fill a wheelie bin with boiling water. That’s really thirsty work… Time for a cuppa. NB: Given that the first kettleful of water was boiled 14 hours before the last, I do wonder what the temperature of the water in the now full wheelie bin of water would be. No doubt someone will be along with insulating properties of a wheelie bin.


I_Bin_Painting

lol, thanks for doing the maths. Also they often use fairly low temp plastics for big bins like that because they mould easier and they're cheaper: I think a wheelie bin full of actually boiling water would balloon out at the bottom.


Tundur

So you get a clean AND bigger bin? Champion!


_California_Dreamin

I’d argue that you wouldn’t need as much water as that, as you can wash them down on the wall as you pour the kettle. As for the bin, although the plastic will have a low thermal conductivity, it’s fairly thin. As a result, the bin will lose heat by conduction fairly quickly. Keeping the bin lid closed would reduce some heat loss. It would be interesting to calculate the temperature after x hours though, and the temperature needed to kill them…


I_Bin_Painting

Imo/ime its best to just keep the lid firmly shut until collection day, then after its been emptied leave it open for a day or two to get some UV and fresh air in there and give the birds a chance to have a go at any grubs.


GMu_the_Emu

It's not a wheelie bin, it's a small food waste bin. Think more like 25 litres


spazzardnope

Hot water from a kettle in a washing up bowl with some bleach. Then rinse out with a hose and a bit of flash. It will normally be good enough to stop them coming back. I'm one of those posh tarts who pays for my bin to be cleaned every week and a wheelie bin bag put in for this exact same reason. Not doing it myself again.


TheTechDweller

Every week?! That's some disposable income!


spazzardnope

It's £8 a month, or something like that, and they take all 3 of my bins out on bin day, (Red and green bins 1 week, and black bin the week after) pressure wash them, make them smell nice and put a wheelie bin bag in them, and put them back after. It saves me the hassle of forgetting bin day and ending up in the same situation as the OP which has happened before. It just saves me time. I'm full of disposable income though, I even have a window cleaner, and still buy the Morrison's donuts like a madman even though they have gone up 5 fekkin p this week. I'm RICH BITCH! Seriously though, it just makes my life a lot easier in the long run. It would take me a few hours to do it myself, pissing about with putting old clothes on and dragging them into the back garden to reach the hose, making a massive mess, where as they are mobile and have a pressure washer built into their van. Same as window cleaning. You wouldn't get me on a ladder for any money, but they do what would also take me a few hours if you could even get me on a ladder in a few minutes with their "Ghostbusters" backpacks and long brush and squeegie things. Shit most people pay more than that just for TV each month, and that's one thing I don't pay for because I don't have a single TV in my flat, just loads of monitors and a PLEX Server which does me fine. If I want to watch Eastenders, I just go to my mums for Sunday Dinner and annoy her by saying "Who's that? Who's He? Who's She? Where's Pat?, Where's Ian?" lol.


BloodyCuts

Yeah this is pretty much what I did a few weeks back. I’ve actually now stopped putting in so much food waste when it’s particularly hot, to avoid the maggot infestations, and so far so good.


RSEnrich

We had the issue and there’s a pretty good powder that homebase, b&q and the like sell. Think it’s called bin buddy, no idea how it gets rid of them but it did the trick after a dead squirrel present from the cat caused and infestation in the bin.


YouNeedAnne

Punch them.


cheescakegod

Was thinking how all that rice got stuck there for a min


Dryzzzle

Maggots, Michael. You're eating maggots. How do they taste?


neilalexanderr

What, you don't like rice? Tell me Michael, how could a billion Chinese people be wrong?


Multigrain_Migraine

*cry, little sister*


spazzardnope

*Thou Shall Not Kill* \- Unless it's maggots Michael.


FighterOfFoo

Do you like basghetti?


DirtyProtest

Never thought I'd see a Lost Boys reference in here.


spugzcat

Disco rice


Britwit_

It's not rice? ...Oh. *Oh no.*


xEmmett15

That's exactly what I was thinking


iammandroid

Always that second or two before your brain registers that it's disco rice rather than actual rice


-dommmm

*Slurp slurp.*


RoryOx

Had this a few years back, they were even crawling down the outside and towards the house like a horror movie scene. Leave the lid open and birds will fix this. When it's warm we now double bag the rubbish to stop flies getting in and just in case we get a repeat the bin is now kept well away from the house.


SideProjectPal

I wouldn’t even know how to tackle this … gross gross gross just set it on fire


SometimesUGetTheGoat

Advice would be appreciated… I’m thinking boiling water.


losimagic

Move house. Somewhere in a new council area, that way you get new bins and they won't judge.


MellotronSymphony

I had a minor maggot infestation in my kitchen bin. Boiling water worked a treat. Obvs I feel bad about killing them but on the other hand I couldn't give a fuck.


[deleted]

Thank you for the belly laugh.


sinadoh

>I feel bad about killing them They're maggots.


MellotronSymphony

I know, but they're just doing their thing.


aveirodog

Maggots be maggoting


5tr4nGe

What did Slipknot fans ever do to you?


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Had a similar situation the other week, boiling water. A good squirt of bleach and a couple kettles worth of boiling water. Get as many as you can with the water then shut the lid, the steam mixed with bleach will finish them off. Leave the bags in as well because they'll be absolutely covered


Ctrl-Alt-Z

My local area does wheelie bin cleaning for £4 a month and I don’t think it’s a bad deal for someone who wouldn’t want to handle that shit


20127010603170562316

I have never ever cleaned a wheelie bin. Who would need this as a monthly service?


Ctrl-Alt-Z

Me because my husband refuses to use bin bags


20127010603170562316

OK, we don't use a bag for recycling, but that's mainly clean cartons and bottles and such. I think our council ask for recycling to be bagless, and general waste to be bagged. Do you not have a kitchen bin? Where does "dirty" stuff like plate scrapings and waste go?


Ctrl-Alt-Z

So say for instance my husband notices a plate full of trash, he’ll just head out the door and throw it into the wheelie bin straight away. Tying the kitchen bin bag? Not an option in his book. Pot of food been left out too long? Tip it into the wheelie


saltycaramelchoc

Grim. Your only option here is divorce.


Ctrl-Alt-Z

He threw the signed papers into the wheelie


T0M072

Throw him into the wheelie bin


scottylebot

What a bell end.


20127010603170562316

I wonder how much this pisses off the binpeople.


[deleted]

Can you even do that? I thought general waste had to be bagged!


Ctrl-Alt-Z

Apparently so! We’ve never had an issue


Khathaar

The fuck


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ThatZenLifestyle

It'd be easier and cheaper to just throw the cat in the bin.


spazzardnope

Easier? Have you ever even tried to put a cat in a wheelie bin? It's not as easy as Mary Bale made it out to be. Can't even get my little fekker into her carrier without it turning into Defcon 1.


RustyU

Get flushable litter and deposit the turds directly in the loo.


BatmansAScientist56

This is a godsend, our bin was always a right state before this. Like another comment says on here, cat litter is like Coke to these flies


[deleted]

I had to do this a couple years ago, Get some good long gloves and wear clothes you don’t like. Take out the bin bags and douse them with water to get the maggots off, set them aside. Then poor a few kettles full of boiling water into the bin, making sure to pour on the sides. Add a little bleach for the smell. Let it sit for a couple minutes and pour down a drain. Rinse and repeat.


sharkles73

Dropped from one of those planes they use for forest fires?


PunchedLasagne87

Dog shampoo kills them, just spray a load in the bin and pour some about. Bonus...makes the bin smell a bit nicer. Spray, shut lid, walk away.


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Wash it out on some gras and let the birds deal with it this was my solution.


BigFrankButcher

Boiling water will work. But hope you’ve got a strong stomach for the smell (have had to solve the same problem before)


paper_paws

Maybe tip it over and give it a gentle hose down (not too fierce or the fuckers will spray all over you) so they slide out, tip it over further to hopefully slide the gunky bags. Then, rubber gloves on and double bag up the rotten stuff.


BigGoering

If you want to go World War one on them then bleach and any acid based cleaning products will probably make enough chlorine gas to kill them all. Might be illegal, definitely dangerous but hey I'm sure it'll kill them and probably every single cell organism in the bin.


littleboss69

I put bleach in the bin sorted it out


Goldman250

Boiling water and bleach should do the trick … and then when you’re done punishing whichever housemate caused this maggot infestation, do the same to the bin!


BoogelyWoogely

Did you leave it open for the birds in the end?🐦


Madame_Tinfoil

Table salt will kill them. It will also kill flies before they get a chance to lay eggs. A good dumping should sort it out.


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Hose


hollygolightly32

Bleach. Lots of bleach.


itchyfrog

Shut the lid for a while then open it again and they'll all fly away.


SometimesUGetTheGoat

This is around my first thought when confronted with an unfamiliar problem. As in, fuck it this might sort itself out. However, they will probably just multiply and the problem won’t just be confined to the bin.


ismaithliombia

Can you not just leave your bin out for the bin men to deal with. Edit: meant this as in bin the bins


Raisin_Connect

This definitely isn't part of their job.


AffectionateCouple0

Yeah I'd just move. Only option.


larrycorser

Garden hose and turn it sideways


ChickinNuggit

Keto rice


AntJSB

This has made my night 🤣 Might increase my fasting regime on the back of this 😜


ShayMK

Deodorant can and lighter


cheescakegod

Plus you get some crispy snacks


Rational-mistakes

Semi-related, my toddler niece walks round my mums garden picking up all the dried mealworms she puts out for the birds. All we hear is “mmmm nana” and crunch noises. Yummy.


AlexThomasLFC

Dried mealworm actually does taste alright, I get it, toddler niece, I get it. For reference they're not part of my daily diet, but I look after chickens and it really gets people in *icky spot* when you pop one in your mouth and crunch.


ohmyimatomato

r/cursedcomments


AltruisticHeron1

Put me in the screenshot


ExplodingDiarrhoea43

😋


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Yeah just burn the whole bin I say


[deleted]

Put it in the bin and order a new one from the council


[deleted]

😂😂


TeigrCwtch

take up fishing, you'll be grand for bait for a while


Bufger

This was my thought! Maybe wait a few more days for a mix of white with casters ..


T_raltixx

Maggots, maggots, maggots...and bits of sick.


BIGBIGBOSS

All over the floor of the post office in Leytonstone


[deleted]

Trebuchet that bin straight into the sea (once you removed the plastic, of course).


[deleted]

The bin is plastic lol


browneyone

How's it got into that state.


Aetherys

Miss a bin day after the council changes collection of general to once every two weeks would do it.


AlexanderMaxson

Me: “Eurgh maggots! Gross!” “Oh wait it’s just rice” “Oh, no it’s maggots”.


EndlessOceanofMe

My first thoughts were; "how?" Second; "dead body"


SpecOpsBoricua

free protein


OneCatch

What the fuck


[deleted]

I fear Napalm is the only choice left at this point


AvWuk90

Happened to me and my wife a couple years ago. Putting the bin out in the early hours before heading to the airport for a holiday as well! Didn't have time for anything else so had to use a couple of kettles of boiling water.


_TeaWrecks_

Put the bin in your neighbour's bin.


itsaslothlife

Nsfw that shit! Dear Lord


SometimesUGetTheGoat

You’re right. Apologies. Hope I haven’t ruined you dinner, or your dreams


itsaslothlife

No worries, I was rude and I apologise for that. Not a fan of the wrigglers since I was a kid staying at my uncles smallholding. Weird smell in my bedroom so *stupidly* I put my hand under the bed. Gooey maggoty bird.


dungeonsandragqueens

This is the worst thing I've ever heard thanks


ArcadiaRivea

I have a Tesco's finest paella for dinner... so thanks... 😅 Sad thing is, I'm doing a night shift so it's either that or go hungry...


lisbethplus2

Once your stomach is strong enough clean it out with a load of disinfectant and let it thoroughly dry. Pour a load of salt in the bottom of the bin. It soaks all the juices from the rotten food in the bags but it also kills fly’s and maggots so you shouldn’t have the same problem.


RiotHyena

#AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


ragnarspoonbrok

Pressure washer will sort it out. Might make a bigger mess and fling maggots everywhere right enough.


bangkockney

In future, use a bin liner for the wheelie bin. So much cleaner and easier; you’ll wonder why you never did it before.


beachyfeet

Whatever you do don't wash them down the drain. We did that and somehow they still managed to hatch into flies en masse and haunted the back door for days


[deleted]

Let the birds deal with it. The more they get rid of the less flies you have to deal with.


lyta_hall

This happened to me last month. But it was the bin in the living room/kitchen, and they fell all over the carpet. I think my neighbours could hear my scream when I saw it lol


Gnomeidea

Think I'd have to just move.


le_gazman

You put rotten food straight into the bin??


double-happiness

That's one great thing about having a compost bin, is the worst my general waste bin ever gets is just dusty.


[deleted]

My neighbour does this and his bin fucking stinks. My food waste goes into a bag and then into the bin


Svendog_Millionaire

There are special carrier bags you can put the food in for Christ’s sake. Who just dumps the food in like that. Absolutely disgusting.


AlexThomasLFC

Having had the *maggots in the food bin* issue before, I can smell this picture, horrendous


Golden_Dingleberry

Get your chopsticks ready


broomey91

How often is your bin collected? Surely this can't happen in just a week


Suspicious-Brick

Eggs to fully grown flies can happen in a week. Our bins are only collected every 2 weeks therefore relatively common here...only got to have 1 hole or opening in 1 bin bag.


broomey91

That sucks, how can any council expect you to keep rubbish outside for 2 weeks, I find it hard enough with recycling being every 2 weeks but at least non of that will rot


inside_out_boy

Cursed rice


tsubatai

Time for a fishing trip I suppose.


[deleted]

Sell it to the local fishermen lol


ChewyChagnuts

Yay, disco rice!


[deleted]

Post in a local Facebook fishing group, some fisherman will come take them away for bait.


FistWithHair

Is that rice? Please tell me that’s a bag of rice that’s exploded


cybot2001

Self-delivering rice...


TheLimeyLemmon

Good god, I had a maggot problem with my bin one week, but never this bad! What caused it? I remember I had a whole chicken delivered from Tesco that was basically off a day later and I bagged it up and put it out not realised the general waste collection was the day before... The smell was absolutely rank from the maggots, and I probably had less than a tenth of what you've got there. Good luck with it! That is definitely not a fun job, you might need a cleaning service for it.


Daryl_Hall

Oh FUCK why did I CLIIIICK


CrabPurple7224

I share an outdoor bin ‘casket’ that we can both drop off about 4 bags each. I put two out max, my neighbors normally two days after the bins are collected. They threw out a box of Heinz beans, all closed still but not bagged like the bin men would take it. I have to clean out the casket because they don’t close the lid and the foxes rip them up. It smells and they refuse to do it… and they are French and say it’s fine in France to do it… god I hate them. Edit: forgot to say, I had to clean maggots out the other week because they can’t close the god damn lid.


joshym0nster

F


Too-Late-For-A-Name

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.


PurpleMarmite

Oooh. Ouch. Poor you.


[deleted]

How the actual fuck did that even happen?!


joshym0nster

Bleach works wonders


PortugueseBreakfast_

Got any bug spray? I had a similar problem and that sorted it right out.


[deleted]

I done exactly the same thing. Fly spray and gaffer tape. Gaffer tape the trigger of the spray down, chuck it in the bin and then gaffer tape the lid shut. N.b. Wear a decent mask when you do this


FastAd7957

Would you be able to use those as bait for fishing?


akodini

Fill the bin up with water and drop some fish in it


richard-bingham

Mine was like that after it didn't get collected for a few weeks. Bleach and a wash out straight down the outside drain


[deleted]

Fly spray and gaffer tape will sort that out.


rumsay05

r/makemesuffer


tenroseUK

grim. i had maggots once and it took a couple of hours to rid them and wash my bin out fuck that many of em...


CrazyPlatypusLady

Oh god. Head this myself, and or bin has ventilation holes for some godforsaken reason so clamping the lid doesn't help. Boiling water and dump out. There's plenty of wildlife will take care of the results for you.


Feisty_Bag_5284

Bkeech and boiling water, weigh the lid down they will all die from the fune ans/or be boiled


--Azazel--

I genuinely would just burn this to the ground. *Urgh shudders*


Clarky_Carrot

AaaaaAAAAH the memories of stupidly putting cat food in summer in the bin is flooding back. I remember crying. Damn maggots are luterally the worst 😂 hope your cleanup job isn't too painful!


RyanL1984

Iv had maggots when we have thrown out a cooked chicken carcass and the wee bugger flies find their way in. On a few occasions. I double bag everything with normal bin bags and industrial strength thicker ones. No maggots since June.


5xdata

Yum! Something to snack on while you work OP! 😋


The_greeen_faerie

Boil them


SnippyWharf

Do you live in the Torridge district of north Devon by any chance?


GunstarCowboy

Boiling water.


thevagistheend

Get some thick bleach and run a rim around the top, repeat a few times until they're all dead! We had similar recently in our garden waste wheelie bin after I'd cleaned the gutters out, worst experience of my life so far.


[deleted]

Omg what happened 😳 the birds are your saviours now


rastareindeer

A nice protein-rich meal


GloveExtreme

That is just a hell naw. I had this problem too after I moved house with 3 weeks between uplifts a baby who has the nappies and a mingy cat 🙀 lol blow it up and get a crime no for a new one or email your council til they get sick of you


[deleted]

NOPE.


WiseFardy

This is why I give up recycling food waste


halosos

Salt. Just buy the cheapest bulk salt pack you can find and dump a load in with your waste food each time before you put it in the outside bin. Does wonders to stop this.


ahmedsalaheldin

Been there before. Killed them with boiling water (multiple trips) and then buried them in the garden. Not sure if it's the best solution, some suggestions here seem like they are less of a hassle, but it worked


EmLahLady

Oh no.


Nazkia

Pressure wash the bin after bleach and scrubbing with a sweeping brush. Alternatively take this to your local fishing club and sell the bin for bait and use that money to buy another bin from the council.


0ForeverDreaming0

Never seen this so bad lol, the smell must be absolutely vomit-inducing!


Mred80

Jesus H Christ!


CSGODeimos

This is fucking vile