Sanitation

Our refuse container is normally emptied Tuesdays before 8:45 AM . With the container back on the maintenance porch I rinse it out and put a little bleach in with some water and scrub it and the lid with a long handled scrub brush and rinse well. Then I tip it up to let it drain and dry. The next bag of refuse will not be deposited in the container for a day or two so it will be dry.
I much prefer to put forth the effort to start the collection week with a dry, clean container to starting the collection week with a container that is not clean and dry. I would rather the collection men think well of me for taking care. I am saying nobody wants to deal with a nasty trash can crawling with maggots. This is the most simple and direct method to a continual state of good sanitation for refuse collection containers that I know, so far.


Many years ago I experimented with the collection and composting of restaurant kitchen waste. Every day I collected on average five gallons of waste five days a week. I put it in a barrel. It began to add up. I learned an awful lot from this experiment. One thing I learned was how to deal with so many flies that you felt the wind and heard the hum from millions of tiny wings as they swarmed upward and all around.