Binman's trick to stop maggots taking over your food waste bin

Binman's trick to stop maggots taking over your food waste bin As many people in the UK start using their food waste bins for the first time, a binman has shared how to keep maggots from making themselves at home inside With many areas in the UK now starting to use their brand new food waste bins, a binman has shared how to stop maggots from taking over them. In 2024 the Conservative Government announced £295m of funding for local councils to introduce weekly food waste collections. The idea behind the funding is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as food waste can be sent away from landfill and to power plants that generate more sustainable energy to power homes and businesses. However, the introduction of the bins have come with criticism from homeowners about their smell and how they attract creatures such as flies, maggots, foxes and rats. The No1 Binman on TikTok, a self-styled 'binfluencer', regularly shares helpful content assisting Brits in understanding proper waste disposal practices. The majority of his videos respond to questions received from his thousands followers, with his aim being to prevent people from placing different materials and refuse in the wrong bins, as doing so could result in bins being left unemptied on collection day. How to stop maggots taking over your food waste bin? As new food waste bins started being collected over the last month, the binfluencer started getting a number of questions about how to prevent pests in bins, especially in the warm weather the UK has been having. He said: "If you've got some smelly food, it proper pongs, double bag it. Then once you have double bagged it, make sure you squeeze the air out of it and then make sure it's tight and put it in your bin. "If you can, keep it [the bin] out of direct sunlight. When it starts cooking and heating up, it attracts more flies because of the smell of it, try and put in the shade - under a chair or anywhere you can. "Thirdly, keep the lid closed. If the flies can't get in there, they can't lay the maggots to then be in the bin. If you can, put the food waste in the freezer and then on bin day, put it in your bin. "There is one more, if you want to get rid of some of them, you can put salt in your bin - It'll also stop the maggots." Dozens of people commented on the binman's video to share their experience of using their food waste bins, with one person adding they would 'never' use it again. One person commented: "In the last heatwave it got to 31.5c in our house and never gave the bin a thought until at 9.25 at night they were crawling all over the place. Never again!!!!" A second said: "The lid on my food waste bin broke just before the mega heatwave. My god, I've never smelt anything so disgusting in my whole life. Maggots EVERYWHERE.... They emptied it and I promptly ordered a new bin. Never experienced that before any life & don't want to ever again." A third said: "In heat we always double bag, and once been collected we always clean them with bleach." A fourth added: "I put paper towel at the bottom and then put salt in it always works."