Advice to avoid the maggot invasions (From Wirral Globe)

Hear hear! People should only buy what they are going to eat. Chucking food away is a sign that you've got too much money!

obviously D V Hall must be putting his rubbish in other peoples bins. we had maggots in our bins aswell an so did nearly all of the street and they do slither up walls! is he really serious about cooking too much food? he's basically saying count how many chips and beans you're kids eat an then everytime they have that meal again only give them what they ate last time! is he seriously on this planet? don't put food in the bin ok were else am i ameant to put it? keep an eye on the temperature of your bin but people please 'keep an eye on the weather aswell if its warm ice your bins! if its cold put a heater in them'! he clearly must have lots of time on his hands to clean out his bin like that all the time! there is not much wus mums or o.a.p's or people who live in the real world can do about maggots in bins however the council should be emptying are bins every week like they did before! p.s D V Hall is also trying to say he has never had 1 fly or 1 ant in his household or around his home so my theory for that is he must live in a bubble.

Like DV Hall, I, too, take care to keep my bin clean and clear of maggots. I was, therefore, shocked to see them crawling round my bin AFTER it had been emptied. Unfortunately,m after a long round, the bin lorry must be crawling with the things!

I notice that Mrs DV Hall is lucky enough to live in the town of Irby. I bet she doesn't live in a terraced house with a small back yard and alleyways like those of us who are experiencing problems.... What I'm saying is that people who live in terraced houses with back yards and alleyways live a lot closer together than people in the leafy suburbs of Pensby, Irby and Heswall and we are often plagued by nuisance tennants and people who fly tip in the local alleyways which in turn means that we are more prone to problems with flies and maggots than other areas. Wallasey and in my case Egremont is a far more densely populated area than some other places in Wirral and there is probably a **** site more rubbish per square mile than other places in Wirral, which in turn makes it very difficult for people to prevent the recent plague of maggots that has been occuring recently. I am very very careful about rubbish. I try wherever possible not to waste food or throw food out (on the average income of people in Egremont I can assure you that people here cant afford to waste food!)If I have to throw food or any other type of rubbish that would interest flies or any other pests I make sure that I double bag it! For the record even when I do double bag food and clean and dry my bin after emptying I STILL have a problem with flies and maggots in my back yard. I also contact the Neighbourhood Wardens to come and clear the Alleyway whenever I see rubbish left lying about. I know that maggots DO climb... they climb out of the (smooth plastic) wheelie bin and have in fact been coming into my kitchen via my tumble dryer vent which I have recently resealed!!!!
THE ONLY SOLUTION IS weekly collections!!!

D.V Hall,
you say do not put food in the bin, where should we put it then!.
Your house sounds like Spring and Port Wine!, if you do not eat your dinner now, you will have it for supper or your breakfast!.
p.s you must wash your gravy off the plates down the sink, you wasteful person.

with ref to...
1) Don’t put food in the bin. Why is anyone preparing more food than they can eat? Stop automatically throwing away any food that has passed its date without doing a simple ‘sniff’ test first; the date is a guide, not a rule.

What are you on about????
I'm 9 months pregnant and being in this condition will not risk anything that is past its BBD.

It has already been proven that some food packaging has been manipulated to show incorrect dating. I've even had to throw out raw meat which is within its date that has so obviously gone off.

Sometimes stores don't keep to strict health guidelines for temperature control and storage.

Did you know the Tescos delivery service at Bidston store the prepared orders next to compactors of rotting food with rats and maggots running/climbing freely until delivery van ready?


Where do you put your waste? Bones, egg shells etc, you obviously don't eat everything.

Food rotting in warm conditions for more than 10 days is at the correct stage for flies to lay eggs, hence the new problem of maggots for many householders.

This rotting food used to be collected before the flies would lay (every 7 days), and taken to the tip which would help the decomposing of all rubbish on the tip.

BRING BACK WEEKLY COLLECTIONS especially through the summer months

In my palace, the servants put food waste and non recycled waste into the bin in the kitchen, when full, binbag is tied up, into the green bin. Thats all, the green bin gets emptied every two weeks and start all over again. Never seen one single maggot ever. The bin does not get cleaned. I may add that, the lid is always shut.

Also, washing the bin out frequently will encourage the maggots.

If you wash it, you must dry it thoroughly!