well ours always has flies around it, rubbish attracts flies in my neck of the woods. You must be very lucky if you don't have flies around rubbish where you live.

Ours gets ants I hate ants. I've tried chucking tons of ant killer everywhere but still they keep coming back.

Not a bin, but our compost tumbler was over filled by Chief and what was inside was attracting all sorts of flies. I tumbled it down to the veggie patch for direct application! and had my hands covered in decaying matter - made my stomach heave.

Personally, Ive never seen maggots around a rubbish bin. Rats - yes, maggots - no. Recycle more, get a compost bin. Check your water restrictions and turn your bin upside down with a sprinkler under it.

Ive heard many people wanting to start up a bin cleaning business and Im prettu sure that you can use reclaimed water to do so.

The problem with turning your bin upside down is the runoff from the bin enters the storm drains, and therefore, the rivers and seas. Bins harbour all kinds of germs which enter our waters.

I have a compost heap, a worm farm and wash everything before I put it in and I still get bloody maggots. I would definately get it cleaned - in fact I have been looking half heartedly for a company who would do it. And who will also remove all the "my mum looks after me so the union looks after her" stickers my ex-house owner left on them

That's nothing compared to the fish f**king in it

I would not use such a service. All our rubbish is put in a plastic sack before being put in the bin so don't have to worry about washing it.

$5 a month for cleaning a bin sounds too much as a potential client, and not a enough if I were providing the service!

Who the Hell has a clean bin. ?!

Everything that goes in our non-recycling bin goes in, in a plastic bag... but the bin is still dirty, still gets flies, still gets ants and still stinks.

I settle for washing it myself every few weeks.

I was pegging the washing out the other morning and a massive magpie type bird sat on the fence right next to me. I thought it had come to see me and I chatted to it for a while. It then jumped down by my feet and started to happily eat the hundreds of maggots I was standing in, that had erupted from my bin (un-noticed by me until that time). You can imagine how delightful a discovery that was for me

Thought I'd just chip in with the situation here in Sunny K*nt...

Our bins get emptied fortnightly, one week it's recycling, the following it's household. It's nowhere near enough especially in the summer when the bins can get vile. We use plastic liners in the household bin, but they still get maggotty. As for the recycling bin, I'm sure there's a new eco-system developing in the bottom of that!

There is a bin cleaning service that comes round monthly, they charge I think about £3.50 per bin each time, there is no need for a contract, you can have a one-off if you like... I'm looking out for them because unbelievably, in October, there are maggots in our household bin AGAIN this week.

Ours are emptied weekly, with the recycling one done fortnightly.

When I lived in Sydney, in about 1987, in my area they did the bins every day !!

Never had maggots as far as I know and I think I'd have seen them, our bin rarely smells and don't see many flies around it. All our rubbish gets bagged and then put in the bin which is emptied weekly. We (sorry, he) probably gives it a rinse out once every six months or so.

Wouldn't dream of paying someone to come round and clean it and don't remember seeing a van around doing it for anyone else, unless they're pretending to wash dogs - stacks of them about.

I saw this in Woolworths today.. and thought of this thread...

$6.xx something.

Why would you want to kill your bin?




Sorry, I'll get my coat.......................