Dealing with a stinking wheelie bin?

[Linkex]

Chicken carcass goes into wheelie bin on Thursday, for collection on Friday. Bin failed to go out and now it is 2 weeks until it is collected. As you can imagine, with this weather it is starting to stink something hideous.

Is there anything I can do to neutralise the smell without having to go digging it out?

*Remembers this is GD*
It must not destroy the wheelie bin or the collection truck/bin men, so no fire, explosives, exotic chemicals that can dissolve plastic etc etc

 

[KASM]

look forward to the maggots

 

[BoonMonkey]

Put a dead turkey in there, the dead birds will counteract the smell of each other.

 

[Cosimo]

Urine will dissolve said carcass.

 

[Von Smallhausen]

Google for wheelie bin cleaners in your area.

They turn up, power wash the bin and job sorted.

 

[churchhawk]

Dont you put your food in tie up bags before putting them in the bin?

Your going to have lots of maggots

 

[MooMoo444]

Keep the lid closed? Even if it smells, if the lid is closed fully then it won't be a problem. Flies dont have strong arms capable of lifting.

Also as said above, you should bag things fully.

Once the bin is emptied, you could probably clean it out with the hosepipe and bleach to get rid of any lingering smells.

 

[4T5]

Orange peel neutralises smells.

 

[twist3d0n3]

febreeze?

 

[bushmins]

Clean it.

 

[Snograt]

Google for wheelie bin cleaners in your area.

They turn up, power wash the bin and job sorted.

That's great, but sadly of no use until the bin's actually emptied.

Apart from filling it with oranges, I think you're stuffed.

 

[Magic_x_uk]

Do what I do every couple of months.

For starters, everything usually goes into black bags anyway, so that reduces mess and smell in the bin most of the time

Then when it has been emptied, now and then I will empty a bottle of bleach into it, give it a good clean, then add a lot of hot soapy water and clean it out then wheel the bin down the drive and empty into the drain on the road.

keeps my bin smelling nice and looking pretty clean.

 

[panyan]

Dealing with a stinking wheelie bin?

id just chuck the whole lot into the bin

oh... wait...

 

[Nightglow]

Two weeks for collection. It's every week here.

Dig a deep hole empty contents from bin & burn, then fill in hole.

Then use Jeyes fluid it's great for bin cleaning.

 

[fez]

Two weeks for collection. It's every week here.

Dig a deep hole empty contents from bin & burn, then fill in hole.

Then use Jeyes fluid it's great for bin cleaning.

We get the recycling done one week and the general waste the next so if you miss it, you have to wait 2 weeks till they are back again.

 

[Randomface74]

put it on the councillor's doorstep

 

[Nightglow]

Recycling & general waste every week.

 

[Spuj]

Nuke it from orbit.

 

[phil-k]

there is some powder called Freshbin that you can get at most supermarkets

 

[shimy182]

2 or 3 of these