what's the easiest way to clean and de-odorize this thing? visitng my parents for a few weeks and wanna do something nice for em.
my dad is a lazy frick like me and he likes to just throw trash / dog shit / some dead birds directly into the dumpster without a bag, so needless to say, they smell like the worst of everything. my mom eventually got him to stop doing that because she can't stand the smell.
i'm willing to buy one of those pressurized water things since if it works out, i want to do the same for my dumpsters.
Bleach and a pressure washer. Have fun
In reality? There's no way to remove those smells except sunlight, air, sunlight, air, ozone....
It's porous and those smells are leeched in, you can clean and dry that bin, place it in a small room for a week blasting it with ozone until all rubber in the neighbourhood disintegrates and it'll still smell like damp shit after a few days.
If you really care, but them a new bin. You're willing to buy a pressure washer, strip the bin and recycle it.
>bin used to store rubbish and shit smells bad
Oh dear! Someone call 911.
When the garbage truck goes by it always drips some liquid in the road that smells like aunt daisy's panties after spring break. I wonder if the driver goes home smelling like that; I used to live with a girl who worked at a steakhouse and she'd come home smelling like frenchfries, and it would take a day or two to wear off, but then she'd have to work another shift.
as for OP and his parents, welcome to first world problems
>she'd come home smelling like frenchfries
Tasty
It's old vegetable oil smell anon. Think McDonald's kitchen.
Working at Burger King on Fridays during Lent was awful because of the number of Whaler sandwiches we'd sell. At least on a normal day, coming home smelling like french fries and flame broiled beef wan't bad.
Hose it out and let it bake in the sun all day. Just adjust the angle of it so sunlight hits inside for a while. It is actually a pretty good disinfectant.
disinfecting and deodorizing are two very different things. the can is gonna be clean but it's still gonna smell like ass without harsh chemicals.
>call city, request a replacement can due to damage
>if they approve, go outside and punch a hole through the can, pull off one of the wheels, or break off the lid
>if they deny, try the bleach method idk
>>call city, request a replacement can due to damage
>>if they approve, go outside and punch a hole through the can, pull off one of the wheels, or break off the lid
This is the correct answer
ask the city for a replacement, sometimes they are free.
cleaning those things is very difficult, you literally need to get inside one and scrub it with a metal brush to get the shit out of it, and at that point you are scraping plastic.
>cleaning those things is very difficult
maybe if you're an old lady with mobility problems
Always wondered if cities have special machines for cleaning those trash bins. Don't recall any of the trash bins I've gotten when moving somewhere new stinking and I doubt they don't reuse them between accounts.
We have a bin cleaning service, it’s like a garbage truck, but uses a rotating head with multiple power washing nozzles. You can’t come close because of the bleach, I think it uses steam or something too because there’s a lot of vapour coming off it.
Comes every 6 months or so
the trick is to regularly clean it.
Fill it with a few gallons of HOT water then drop in a handful of denture cleaner fizzy tablets.
Let it sit for an hour or so.
Don't forget to toss your dentures in there for a good cleaning too!
Mmmm hot fizzy denture soup!
Removing my dentures is a b***h so I usually just chew the tablets.
Couple large containers of baking soda. Couple gallons of 30% vinegar. Big tub of hot water. Get one of those powder sprayers for diatomaceous earth so you can get good coverage on the can interior. Pour one gallon around the edge top. Dump water in. Dump 2 or 3 more gallons of vinegar in with another thing of baking soda. Tip over to empty, spray leftover out w hose.
That doesn't do shit, it just cancels out the acid and base and makes bubbles.
>reactions have no effect
This isn't your synapses firing.
Soak it in simple green and set it in the sun. That's how I get the smell out of my horses' stall mats.
Dish soap and a garden hose.
I would probably fill it with soapy water and let it sit for an hour. Then come back and rinse it out. Then let it sit in the sun.
>deodorize
Oxiclean is usually the answer to this for nearly anything (or generic sodium percarbonate cleaners). Makes peroxide that will disinfect and break down most smelly stuff. Peroxide breaks down into harmless water in the sunlight. Borax for more delicate things. Enzymatic cleaners like for pet odors are good for many animal-related smells. All quite safe to handle and dispose of without killing the lawn or whatever. Star-San (phosphoric acid based brewing sanitizer) is a very good acidic cleaner for glass and plastic stuff, too.
t. chemist
I'd use any aggressive degreaser. Oven cleaner works fine then hose it out. Oven cleaner saponifies fats etc.
i normly put 1L of bleach in my bin the day before pick up, pour it down the side then add 4 or 5L of water.
once it sits over night its done the job put it out for truck and everything gets tipped in to truck
How to get er done.
Comet Cleaner with Bleach and a long handled brush.
Bleach and ammonia, just leave it in there outside, theres not really enough chlorine in cleaning bleech to make a lot of mustard gas, but youre outside it'll be fine
Pressure wash, spray down with ammonia
A minimal effort way is get some pool shock from the hardware store and add it in while filling it with water. Let it sit for a day then dispose of the water down the drain. Used this to get the smell out of an old chest freezer that became unplugged had 40lbs of various meats rot in it for 3 months.
I would have burned that freezer. Nice tip though. I normally use simple green, pressure washer and it does an ok job. Smells less like baked dog shit after for sure.
I ran a 2 stroke outboard engine in mine. Now it smells like exhaust is is free of any garbage juice
Who gives a frick? It's a bin. Do you stand over it inhaling the fumes?
stinky stuff attracts pests
>stinky stuff attracts pests
This. I keep all my garbage inside my house in a pile on the kitchen floor until I hear the truck coming so that no odor can leak out of the bags and attract pests.
Leave it open in the sun.
I shot a .22lr hole in the bottom of mine so it drains if wind flips lid open and it rains inside, but I guess you could also use a drill lol.
holy SHIT you actually SHOT it? instead of just drilling it or punching a hole through it like a reasonable person? WOAHHH
might as well use his gun for something since he's never going to use it
That's common because it works fine which you'd know if you shot more than your wad into your keyboard.
I tried this on a 55 gallon plastic (probably HDPE) drum using a 7.62x39 MAK-90. The bullets went through so fast the holes melted back shut and sealed. had to end up drilling holes.
Bleach & scalding hot water and a scrub brush you're not gonna miss. Pour in a generous amount of thick bleach, top up with a couple litres of hot water and let it soak for 5 mins. Then give it a good hard scrub, tip the juices and spray with a hose. Repeat until sufficiently cleaned. Used to make the young lads clean the bins out this way weekly when I ran a pub.
Oxiclean and a garden hose.
use a hose