Topic ID 6029
well, the maggot season is upon us again, black bin followed by brown bin. we have made a consicencious effort to double wrap all food, and double bag all bags, line our disinfected bin with salt and jeyes powder-but still they come. my new rule this year; simples-as soon as the maggots appear, my bin goes out onto the footpath, regardless what the collection day may be. let the council deal with the buggers.
Reply ID 81689
Serious question: Is this a problem in specific areas of the town? I have never had a problem with maggots and don't recall my neighbours having problems with them.
Reply ID 81690
im not sure ewoo, but the layout of our garden dictates where our bins sit. i know a lot of people had this problem last year, myself included.
Reply ID 81694
Yep, had maggots again too. Leaving the bin lin open for a day seems to do the trick - either they bugger off or get eaten by birds, not sure which.
Reply ID 81695
Not sure if we have maggots or not but the smell usually knocks us sideways when the lid is opened so we don't hang around to look!
Reply ID 81700
I thought most of the waste that rots and causes smells can go in the brown bin.
Reply ID 81702
If you put anything that might cause maggots into the bin being collected that week it becomes a weekly collection. Then it is no different to what we have always had.
Reply ID 81704
I use starch bags from Tescos or sainsburys to put my food waste in and then make sure they are hidden in the brown bin. Other councils allow them as they are 100% biodegradable so I cant understand why east herts wont.
Reply ID 81705
We live in terraced housing with front gardens no more than six feet deep. Wheelie bins cannot be left in the back garden because wheeling them through the house in wet weather is impractical. All bins are now left in the front gardens. With fortnightly collections, when we come home in the summer we now walk through a cloud of flies to get to our front door. Welcome to Hertford's "Dustbin City".
Reply ID 81706
I passed by a collection of brown bin on Port Hill a while ago, the night before the collection day, the smell was so horrendous I felt ill.[xx(]
Reply ID 81714
You might think a Conservative Council, in a middle class constituency like Hertford, would care more about having different types of collection, for different types of housing. Like councils do in other parts of the country.
Reply ID 81718
Some residents on the road where I live share their brown bins and it only seems to be a problem if they both do a lot of gardening and have a lot of garden waste.
Reply ID 81722
What? Keep up! Keep up :-)
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Originally posted by Ewoowar
Some residents on the road where I live share their brown bins and it only seems to be a problem if they both do a lot of gardening and have a lot of garden waste.
Reply ID 81723
quote:Paul. Are you missing the point or reading the Daily Mail? It is still weekly collections is it not? Just different bins and boxes to put things in. I read the info on the website today and it says that you can put food in the black and brown bin.
Originally posted by Paul
We live in terraced housing with front gardens no more than six feet deep. Wheelie bins cannot be left in the back garden because wheeling them through the house in wet weather is impractical. All bins are now left in the front gardens. With fortnightly collections, when we come home in the summer we now walk through a cloud of flies to get to our front door. Welcome to Hertford's "Dustbin City".
Reply ID 81724
Being unable to put the waste into a waterproof bag for the brown bin means waste will rot for seven days in the heat, attracting and creating flies. And how can I persuade my neighbours to wash their brown bins out every time they are emptied? It is a nonsense. Councils have a duty to adapt their collecting to suit the type of housing - terraced, semis and flats each need different appropriate collecting methods.
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Originally posted by James007 Paul. Are you missing the point or reading the Daily Mail? It is still weekly collections is it not? Just different bins and boxes to put things in. I read the info on the website today and it says that you can put food in the black and brown bin.
Reply ID 81725
quote:Flats do have different methods. Whilst their recycling bins are collected fortnightly, the general refuse is still collected weekly.
Originally posted by Paul
Councils have a duty to adapt their collecting to suit the type of housing - terraced, semis and flats each need different appropriate collecting methods.
Reply ID 81729
Some councils that have terraced property with no back lane and no front garden still collect just weekly black bags. practical but not very green. What would be better could be communal street corner Biffa Bins.
Reply ID 81730
quote:Keep up what? I was pointing out, succinctly, that if you share a bin you don't necessarily have to have one permanently in your garden. Keep up! Keep up!
Originally posted by Paul
What? Keep up! Keep up :-)quote:
Originally posted by Ewoowar
Some residents on the road where I live share their brown bins and it only seems to be a problem if they both do a lot of gardening and have a lot of garden waste.
Reply ID 81731
quote:Which would work in some areas but not others. In fact I think it would work in very few roads. Biffa bins are bigger and take more space so it would be difficult to find a street corner or other street area where they could be based. Also, who will want to have such a site outside their home? There are some flats at the end of the road I live in and they have a purpose built unit to house their communnal Biffa bins. These are away from the properties. I don't hink there would be many residential streets in Hertford that could accomodate similar units.
Originally posted by Paul
Some councils that have terraced property with no back lane and no front garden still collect just weekly black bags. practical but not very green. What would be better could be communal street corner Biffa Bins.
Reply ID 81734
Two Biffa bins is surly preferable to (in our road) 27 brown bins, 27 black...etc strung out along the road for all to see - 24/7? (apologies for "Keep up" crack - lesson: never post after more than three units :-)
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Originally posted by Ewoowar Which would work in some areas but not others. In fact I think it would work in very few roads. Biffa bins are bigger and take more space so it would be difficult to find a street corner or other street area where they could be based. Also, who will want to have such a site outside their home? There are some flats at the end of the road I live in and they have a purpose built unit to house their communnal Biffa bins. These are away from the properties. I don't hink there would be many residential streets in Hertford that could accomodate similar units.
Reply ID 81735
quote:No offence taken. I guess each and every road is different. Generally the household bins get stored on the individual properties and are left on the street for the day of collection, whereas the Biffa bins would need a communnal storage area that is acceptable to all.
Originally posted by Paul
Two Biffa bins is surly preferable to (in our road) 27 brown bins, 27 black...etc strung out along the road for all to see - 24/7? (apologies for "Keep up" crack - lesson: never post after more than three units :-)quote:
Originally posted by Ewoowar Which would work in some areas but not others. In fact I think it would work in very few roads. Biffa bins are bigger and take more space so it would be difficult to find a street corner or other street area where they could be based. Also, who will want to have such a site outside their home? There are some flats at the end of the road I live in and they have a purpose built unit to house their communnal Biffa bins. These are away from the properties. I don't hink there would be many residential streets in Hertford that could accomodate similar units.
Reply ID 81752
We use the small food waste bags and the 240L weelie bin liners from these people, it helps to keep the bin a bit cleaner. we put food waste inside the liner and roll it up and then cardboard around the outside. http://www.caddiesandliners.co.uk/products/paper-waste-liners/
Reply ID 81978
The problem is definitely in not being able to wrap that chicken carcass up in plastic bags before it goes in the bin. Newspaper is useless as everything melts and rots out to the bottom of the brown bin. So it has to go in plastic bags in the black bin where it might sit for a fortnight. We have maggots and flies at the moment but so do all the neighbours [:0]
Reply ID 81980
There is deffinately an advantage to being a veggi - as it seems to be meat that causes a lot of the problems
Reply ID 81984
quote:There isn't 'definitely' an advantage to being a vegetarian as flies feed from anything; nappies, tissues or even Linda McCartney's pies. There is definitely an advantage if all the food leftovers are tightly wrapped in newspaper every time and put in either bin surely.
Originally posted by gemipicorn
There is deffinately an advantage to being a veggi - as it seems to be meat that causes a lot of the problems
Reply ID 81985
This year we got a flat-pack double bin shed to hide our bins. The unforeseen up-side is - the bins not being directly exposed to the sun and flies - seem to stay cooler and more wholesome. No maggots yet. P
Reply ID 81997
quote:Well there is as we are and have never had maggots in the bin, but then we can compost all our food waste which is mainly peelings as we eat what we cook and hardly bver have left over food that needs to go for waste. The black bin only contains dry unrecycleable waste and get put out about every 8 weeks. This may sound "holier than thou" but we do not need to produce tonnes of waste.
Originally posted by James007
[quote] There isn't 'definitely' an advantage to being a vegetarian as flies feed from anything; nappies, tissues or even Linda McCartney's pies. There is definitely an advantage if all the food leftovers are tightly wrapped in newspaper every time and put in either bin surely.
Reply ID 82156
Thought my luck was in No Maggots but today I noticed flies around my bin. Two days until collection !!!!!!!!!!!!