Topic: Maggots in wheelie bins

[Chav]

That councils official adive is a combination of untruth - and rank hypocrasy! Wheelie bins and alternate weekly collections were introduced for their supposed environmental benefits - but here we see that the official advice is to:

- rinse polystyrene packaging etc. (using that resource we've all be told to try and save, water...)

- wrap and DOUBLE wrap organic waste  (using those plastic bags we've been told to cut down on using - or which supermarkets have now been encouraged to charge for)

- Use insecticide to control the flies! (using environmentally damaging chemicals)

you got it in one Tobes !
I totally agree with you.

I know they do use maggots in the medical industry to aid with various things as they still do leeches, but I believe they are bread in a sterile environment specifically for this.

Maggots do not worry me, well one or two, but an infestation would.
 Put it this way, if I went out for a meal and saw maggots outside the place, I would not want to eat there.

My front garden is not too bad and my wheelie is well away from my front door, but other people i know are less fortunate and their wheelie is right outside the front door/window because they literally do not have a garden.

Well winter will soon be upon us I suppose 

But yes Tobes like you said, many of the thing we are advised to do are environmentally unfriendly.
I mean the use of pesticides- now that takes the Peeeeeeeeeeeeee

Chav 

[Geoff Reid]

More spin then.

Maggots may not be much of threat to health but the flies are.  Would anyone here be happy to eat something that a blue bottle has just stomped all over if they knew it had just left a syteaming pile of dog crap or Jeans catfood ?

...I know I wouldn't because I'm reasonably sure it wouldn't be healthy. 

[Mart]

If you have a maggot infested restaurant you get closed down, no question.

If you have a maggot infested borough you save a packet and get re-elected.

Maggots breed flies, flies eat shit then regurgitate it on your food. They are not good, the risk is not negligible.

The council will swear, until they are blue in the face (as well), that there is no problem other than our ineptitude in disposing of our refuse, it is not their delusional pursuit of budgetary achievement and slavish devotion to targets. Course not.

My slightly more cycnical view is that if the EU suggested that used car tyres were best disposed of by burning we would now be living under a pall of smoke, if their was a bonus for hanging people who commited driving offences the lamp-posts would be groaning, if specific interests were to dictate that fags were good for you we would have individual targets for consumption. Common sense, or concensus, has no place in this particular world.

The electorate is a source of inconvenience, our only uses are our votes and the income we provide, once both are secured our wishes are, in the majority set aside. This is policy at all levels. Each politician accords their master greater respect than they do their electorate. That's why brainless twats on £130k per annum are prepared to swear blind the scotch troll is doing a good job despite clear indications from the electorate they think he is an incompetent twat, the troll can secure them another couple of years on £130k, acting upon the wishes of the elecorate will see the gravy train terminate. Self interest is served by toeing the line no matter how inexplicable or inane that line may be.

Policy is dictated by accountants, not specialists in each field of service delivery. So the interests of the balance sheet prevail.

I'm on weekly bags, industrial action permitting.

[Tobes]

Policy is dictated by accountants, not specialists in each field of service delivery. So the interests of the balance sheet prevail.

.. and therin you have a distilation of corporate policy and political philosophy - and the single main basic reason why life in the 21st century is taking the downward path into spin and expiency...

   

[Chav]

I woz sortin me rubbish for tomorrows collection,
and yes........... I have maggots.

I have tripple bagged, sprayed etc, hoping to contain the little
mingers.

On Friday, I went to my cousins 40th birthday party at the Polish Club Park North,
and after speaking to my Aunt, who has also had maggots in her wheelie, she said
apparently there is a bloke who goes round getting rid of ya maggots from ya wheelie at
the cost of £2.50 a bin. (he is onto a winner, bet he's rakin it in innit!)

unfortunately I didnt get his details, but I was happy to exterminate me own, armed with a pair
of yellow marigolds, several bin bags and spray.

I moved me wheelie into place for tomorrows collection earlier, but failed to spot the king size slug wrapped
around the wheel, and ran it over.
soooo sorry bin man if slug matter flicks off the wheels and hits you between the eyes as you are emptying innit!  :-[

                                                    Chav 

[Geoff Reid]

 
I bet the last thing Brian Mattock does at night is check the following days weather forecast....

...and the first thing he does in the morning is see waht the weather is actually doing.

Brian is probably the only person in Britain overjoyed to see cold wet weather 

[robert feal-martinez]

Just come across this service. Seems excellent value to me, and they are local: Wheelie Bin Washers UK, they have a special vehicle that sanitises the bins. For domestic ones they charge just £2.50 and they do them usually once a month. They also do commercial which are £7.50. They can be contacted on 01793 827905 or 07794 108988 (Steve Hackett).

[Alligator]

Just come across this service. Seems excellent value to me, and they are local: Wheelie Bin Washers UK, they have a special vehicle that sanitises the bins. For domestic ones they charge just £2.50 and they do them usually once a month. They also do commercial which are £7.50. They can be contacted on 01793 827905 or 07794 108988 (Steve Hackett).

I recall we used to use the services of one of these companies when we had wheelies up in Yorkshire, however we also had weekly collections then so the bins didn't contain as much rotting and festering matter for as long.

£2.50 may not seem like much, but it doesn't sound like such good value when considered against the backdrop of people only having to consider shelling out another £30 a year on this service because they've got a reduced waste service and seen only an increase in their council tax for the privelege. 

[Tobes]

... and having an extra lorry driving around the streets buring fossil fuel, giving out carbon dioxide, and consuming water and checmicals used to clean the bins also makes a complete mockery of the middle class conceit that recycling and AWC is part of our collective 'saving the environment'.

[robert feal-martinez]

I merely pointed out a service that some who are unable to do it themselves, old, inform etc may wish to use.

[Tobes]

I merely pointed out a service that some who are unable to do it themselves, old, inform etc may wish to use.

I know you did Robert. As it goes, I don't have an issue with ther necessary service being offered. I 'merely' pointed out that the service creates an environmental cost  - somewhat ironic if AWC was pushed through by politicians as a supposed 'green' measure, when the inevitable problems were obvious to anybody who bothered to think about them.

[Alligator]

I merely pointed out a service that some who are unable to do it themselves, old, inform etc may wish to use.

I wasn't directing my comments at you, or this service, Robert, I was just pointing out that this would be an additional cost to compensate for the side effects of a reduced council service.  As I said, we used to use this service many years ago and that was when collections were weekly, and therefore the bins didn't smell as bad as they do with fortnighly collections.

As a service it's a good idea and show true initiative by those offering it.    

[Geoff Reid]

Our bin is maggoty  


So I thought I'd dig this thread up and check the advice from SBC again:

A Swindon Council spokesman said: “The female common house fly can lay 500 eggs in three days, and during the summer these can hatch within eight to twenty hours, so maggots can just as easily appear in bins or bags that are collected weekly.

 

Never, ever had maggots in my wheelie bin in Newbury. Not once in 10+ years, (probably closer to 15 years), of having a wheelie bin and seeing it emptied each week.

“In the days of weekly collections, it was common to find maggots in waste during hot weather.

At the landfill perhaps.

“Wheelie bin lids, if kept tightly closed, prevent flies from getting at the contents.

Mine remains tightly closed at all times.  I suppose the flies in West Swindon must be Special Air Service trained ?

“It also helps to store the bin in a shady area if possible, as this reduces the chance of the contents heating up which increases the smell, which in turn attracts insects.

My bin is permanently in the shade and it's not been hot, or even particularly warm since the last collection 10 days ago. In fact it's mostly been cool and wet.

“If the bin does have maggots in it most will be removed when it is emptied, but maggots and eggs will be killed by boiling water.”

That's alright then.....

[Mart]

Very tasty they are too, couple of rashers of cockroach and you have a breakfast fit for a king.

I Yahoo'ed 'wheelie bins maggots', I got 35.600 hits. I lolloped through the pages and scientifically categorised the information to hand.

It's all commercial wheelie bin cleaning services with a smattering of complaints to local papers, the maggot features heavily, as a marketing tool for the commercial enterprises, which must be true otherwise they would get hammered for misrepresentation, or as the source of residents' concerns.

The council responses to residents' concerns have a general theme which, from memory, was absent when the schemes were introduced. The thrust of their argument is that 'maggots are not harmful'.

I'll let you splutter for a bit.

There, all better now? I have to observe that dog shoite is also harmless unless consumed or worn, walking around with your clackers hanging about is also harmless, driving at 90mph in a residential area is harmless (unless you hit something, in which case you could argue that the object you hit is the hazard) house fires are harmless unless you happen to be at home, slugs indoors are harmless, a kharzi in the kitchen is harmless, dogs that bark all night are harmless, drunken b@st@rds howling their way home are harmless and the majority of idiots are harmless.

Until elected.

Still, there's this:

http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/localenv/legislation/cnea/statnuisance.pdf

page 11 says:

It is probable that complaints will
be received about insects from domestic
premises. As indicated above, insects
emanating from domestic premises are
not covered by this extension of the
statutory nuisance regime. Any problems
caused by insects from domestic premises
may, however, be capable of being dealt
with under section 79(1)(a) of the
Environmental Protection Act 1990 –
‘any premises in such a state as to
be prejudicial to health or a nuisance’.

If only maggots carried swine flu.

[Tobes]

Yup, its stinky summer time once again, and time to disinter our old favourite thread, MAGGOTS AND BINS. I do this out of interest, based on the numbers of guests coming to view this topic. Could they be councillors coming to have a shufftie to see if their rebellious electorate are kicking off again - or fellow sufferers from other towns and cities gearing up for pong-o-geddon?

Any early sightings/smellings of rot and decay, or have people managed to defeat the winged hordes?

Out of interest, my neighbours and I have had the pleasure of a number of young DSS funded chavettes with triple buggies and multiple babies moving into the street. Because of the volume of tax subsidised disposable nappies, home delivered pizzas, empty WKD and 2 litre bottles of coke they consume, the amount of rubbish they produce is quite prodigious. As they obviously don't like to have the brown produce of their randomly conceived spawn festering inside their houses, they tend to bag it and dump it out on the street as soon as they can. This gives the foxes several days to get to work, strewing the contents up and down the street in a form of canine dirty protest. Lovely. Mind you, we have a weekly collection here. What horror is cooked up when a disposable nappy and its contents have had time to 'mature' in a nice hot sun caressed wheelie bin for two weeks?

[Muggins]

Not to worry, mine didn't get as far as the outside bin!   First time I've had them though.  Mr Muggins thought it was great fun to stand by and watch me wrestle with the old bag and double wrap it into the outside bin - he didn't think to come and help...

When you get your copy of the *Swindon news, there is some sound advice for you in it!


*picked a copy up from VAS yesterday - still not through the door.

[Bobby Bingo]

If any readers find maggots can they please inform ex- councillor Cherry. He has even more time on his hands for fishing.

[Muggins]

Some one suggested I throw them out for the Robin!

[Bogomil]

Some one suggested I throw them out for the Robin!

Bugger the Robin's, at the rate we’re going it’ll be the only source of protein that the Council Estate Chav’s will be able to afford soon. 

I hear they’re very nice on toast 

[Bobby Bingo]

Yes but cook them slowly otherwise they wrinkle up, go hard and get stuck between your teeth