We only have a community dumpster, but I know myself and said no.
I see this regularly on like cleaning reels people talking about doing their outside trash can every month and they really get in it scrubbing. I would never, esp not with any regularity.
No, but whenever I walk by the power washers at Sam's Club, I am always tempted to buy one just so I can clean the cans. We have those massive rolling ones provided by the town.
Yes. I don't scrub it down or anything, I don't see how you can do that without getting *inside* the can, its so big! Plus it would gross me out, I'm not gonna do that. I will hose it down with the jet setting on the sprayer maybe once a quarter. If the bottom is really gross I'll let it sit with some dawn dish soap and water for a few hours and then tip it over and dump it out.
OMG this is timely because I recently had a big family dinner where my aunt mentioned she pays someone $30 once a month to sanitize her garbage barrels and we all thought she was insane. She was aghast we didn’t regularly clean ours.
I have literally never cleaned mine, but like others we compost so no food goes in them and recycling is rinsed.
ETA: I guess this service isn’t as uncommon as I thought!
Post by expectantsteelerfan on May 1, 2024 6:34:32 GMT -5
I have hosed it out occasionally when it's gotten really bad, but not regularly. We also have new rules where all garbage needs to be bagged in the township issued can (and you had to purchase an extra township issued can if you thought you'd need more than 1), so it really doesn't get that bad.
I hose it out about once a month in the summer. We don't have the giant trucks that pick them up and dump them, so the trash collectors actually have to reach in and grab each bag. Ick. So I try to help in the little ways I can, lol.
We switched trash companies last summer and got a brand new can. They proceeded to skip our house each of the next five weeks and only pick up when I called multiple times. The can was ripe the week it took them four days and I ended up washing it so my kids would continue to take out the trash. And thus concludes the story of the one and only time I have ever washed an outdoor trash can.
No. The can stays in the garage, gets rolled out on trash day. The trash guys don't put the lid back on so I guess that airs it out aand then it gets a rinse with any rain that we dump before rolling back in.
Occasionally. They get ripe after a while, especially in the summer, even though we don’t put anything directly in the bin. We keep them in the garage so I’ll have H clean them out if I start smelling it.
No, and I'm not sure why I would. Mine live completely outside, I don't put food in them, no pet waste, recycling is all rinsed. My trash is double bagged because I bring it to the city dump and we have to pay for city bags, the city bags can fit 3 of my regular kitchen bags, so I bag the kitchen bags into the city bags as I go. I only go to the dump every 2-3 weeks, but even then my trash isn't super stinky or leaky.
We do it as needed. Usually once or twice a year if a bag rips or it gets smelly. saw a company advertising a service that comes on garbage day and cleans the totes, but I don’t know anyone who uses it.
DH hoses it out probably once a year, likely when he's got the pressure washer out for something else.
this. I also think ours get replaced every once in a while by the garbage service... it never seems to get too bad and we certainly don't have our original bins. I clearly don't pay too much attention. The bins are owned by the garbage/sanitation company.
Post by InBetweenDays on May 1, 2024 8:40:49 GMT -5
Never. It lives outside in the driveway. Sometimes it will smell a bit before it's picked up, or on the occasion it isn't dumped far enough to get the stuff at the bottom (usually dog poop bags) but usually it doesn't smell.
Our food/yard waste bin gets gross but doesn't smell and again we've never cleaned it. I think having to dump the goop water after cleaning it would gross me out more than have a dirty bin.