The lunatics are running the asylum part 94

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Our rubbish is now only collected every 2 weeks. We have flies buzzing round the bin despite carefully double-bagging food rubbish. If they give rise to maggots before the collection next week, I'm taking it to the council to show them.

The leaflet telling us so was available in Afghani and Somali, as well as the usual Urdu, Vietnamese, etc. Must get spending priorities right.

When I was a binman in the summer of '82 - weekly collections, we saw loadsa maggots. It's nothing new.

[xoggoth]

I always mean to pour bleach round the top of the bin rim when it is empty but never get round to it. Maggots are much less effort.

[Cliphead]

It's a 2 week collection around here as well but never had a maggot problem (Scottish weather )

A bottle of bleach into the bin gets rid of the smell and a hose out from time to time keeps it all in order.

[RichardCranium]

The lunatics are running the asylum part 94

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I can't get another tune to stick, dammit.

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Expat, I hate you.

[minestrone]

It's a 2 week collection around here as well but never had a maggot problem (Scottish weather )

Thought you stayed in East Ren? One week for me.

Anyway, if you have maggots in your bin them you either cannot tie a bin bag or let flies hang in where you keep your food.

[expat]

Thought you stayed in East Ren? One week for me.

Anyway, if you have maggots in your bin them you either cannot tie a bin bag or let flies hang in where you keep your food.

So you are able to assure me knowledgeably that there is in reality no problem, or if there is it must be my own fault?

Have you thought of becoming a politician?

[minestrone]

So you are able to assure me knowledgeably that there is in reality no problem, or if there is it must be my own fault?

Have you thought of becoming a politician?

Personal resonsibility. What do you want? Someone to come round and put your food in a bag before putting it in a bin then closing the lid? that is all it needs. I bet you will be on here in the next week or so complaining about the nanny state.

If you have maggots in your bin then you are not dealing with your food correctly or you are not dealing with your refuse correctly, yet you want to make a political point about it. Jesus wept.

[EternalOptimist]

When I was in the army, it was well known that maggots would get into a wound, eat the dead bits and prevent gangrene setting in. For that reason, my first aid kit always contained a hanful of the wriggly little saviours.
Now that I am a lot older I still haven't forgotten the lesson and at least once a week I put a few in my undies and let them roam around, looking for bits to chew.

[expat]

Personal resonsibility. What do you want? Someone to come round and put your food in a bag before putting it in a bin then closing the lid? that is all it needs. I bet you will be on here in the next week or so complaining about the nanny state.

If you have maggots in your bin then you are not dealing with your food correctly or you are not dealing with your refuse correctly, yet you want to make a political point about it. Jesus wept.

Actually what I want is the council to collect rubbish more often.

I could say the same things as you said, in fact I more or less did say that to my partner. I double-bagged the rubbish but there were still flies buzzing around it. Quite possibly this would not have led to maggots if they can't tunnel through plastic, but when my partner offered me the option of being really really sure about that, or researching alternative domestic arrangements, I got a heavy-duty garden rubbish bag, went scrabbling in the bin, and TRIPLE-bagged the stuff. I couldn't help thinking that I much preferred the arrangement that I had in France, where the council picked up the rubbish every day.

[DimPrawn]

Let me see, when did fortnightly rubbish collections get introduced, was it after 1997?

When did council tax increases top 200%?

Hmmm, let me think....