Weird question- how to clean big outdoor trash cans

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can you just buy a new one? It seems like anything you would use to clean it would be toxic.

How do you throw away your garbage can?

Put it in an even bigger garbage can!

Is there a market for garbage-can cans?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Trash can cleaning… a chore that most of us don’t want to do! Our outdoor garbage cans are often smelly, grimy and generally repulsive! ??

To touch on a few of the previous posts, there are trash can cleaning companies throughout the US – the benefit of hiring one of these companies is firstly, not having to do it yourself! But the other benefits of a professional company doing it is the use of high power pressure cleaning equipment with the ability to use high heat water and that they collect the wash water in a tank onboard the trash can cleaning truck. This water is often filtered then safely and legally transferred to the sanitary sewer system – preventing dirty, stinky water running down our neighborhood streets, and perhaps more importantly stops this waste water reaching our municipal storm water systems.

In the Kissimmee, Davenport, Celebration and Orlando areas in Florida check out Clean Cans (http://www.cleancans.com) for your neighborhood trash can cleaning service.

Resurrecting a very old thread to plug some business?

[Anonymous]

Couldn't read all the replies, but I use a dollar store toilet brush and dishwashing detergent. I too hate gross garbage cans.

[Anonymous]

I fill 1/4 of my can with water.

I scrub the inside using a plastic broom.

Drain the water.

Then sprinkle diatomaceous earth on the inside. The powder adheres to the inside and I scrub it again with the plastic broom ( https://www.earthworkshealth.com/products.php?gclid=Cj0KEQiA5vXEBRChycOl36LPn5EBEiQAJV2-bNrLMnqfuwLhqX_8S_bwGu0OST0kwUbverxGY_Mm9LUaAlIE8P8HAQ)

Lay the trash can on the side and spray inside with a gardenhose. Drain. Let it air dry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get hose
Tip over trashcan, spray off all interior sides and let it drain into the street
Set trashcan upright
Pour 1/4 gallon of bleach into trashcan
Fill up trashcan with water and let it sit for a few hours
Tip over trashcan and dump water into the street
Flip over trashcan with opening facing the ground and prop up one edge to allow air dry
After a day check for smell, if there is a smell repeat

http://www.onegoodthingbyjillee.com/2012/04/how-to-clean-those-smelly-outdoor-trash-cans.html

This except I scrub vigorously with a broom. You're not going to get all the food and maggots out just by flooding it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would you need to disinfect an outdoor garbage can?
Just rinse it out and be done with it. What am I missing here?

The fact that just rinsing it out does not get rid of the smells that may end up cause maggots in your trash can. The disinfecting removes the smells that attract flies who lay their eggs and become maggots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Use Simple Green if you have to use a detergent. It is safe for the environment.

Use vinegar to take out the smell.

When I worked at a pool in high school I remember we had a big blue scrub brush that was attached to a long broom handle. I believe they sell them at hardware stores because I've seen them at Home Depot. We rinsed the big cans, filled them with water and Simple Green and scrubbed the heck out of them. Rinsed them and let them dry in the sun. It was disgusting but oddly satisfying to get them clean again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I fill 1/4 of my can with water.

I scrub the inside using a plastic broom.

Drain the water.

Then sprinkle diatomaceous earth on the inside. The powder adheres to the inside and I scrub it again with the plastic broom ( https://www.earthworkshealth.com/products.php?gclid=Cj0KEQiA5vXEBRChycOl36LPn5EBEiQAJV2-bNrLMnqfuwLhqX_8S_bwGu0OST0kwUbverxGY_Mm9LUaAlIE8P8HAQ)

Lay the trash can on the side and spray inside with a gardenhose. Drain. Let it air dry.

I’ll bet that you are one of those wackjobs that’s eats that too.

[Anonymous]

Someone asked why you'd bother cleaning and disinfecting outside garbage cans...Well, if you need to keep your can anywhere near your back door where you come and go, it can get pretty rank smelling over a period of time. Doesn't have to be pretty to look at, BUT let's get rid of the smell and the odor that would attract flies and other creatures.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:you don't necessarily need bleach, but you do need a hose, and to do it in the morning or to leave it outside with the lid open on a sunny day for a day with nothing in it after you hose it off so the sun can kill the smell/germs.

it's a dirty job, need about 10-15 minutes in clothes you will tehn take off after you hose everything off.

I was the one asking that people not put bleach in the cans and dump. I agree with you as I periodically clean my cans. I put the water pressure on the hose at it's highest level and spray and dump and spray and dump. I then put on gloves and wipe it down with a rag and some dawn soap (just a bit). Let it air dry and the smell goes away.

New poster here and I do the same. Just like you I don't want to put bleach into the environment so I just put my hose nozzle on the highest pressure and clean it that way. And then also spray with the Dawn power spray for the soap to kinda get in and then again spray it and then let it air dry. My bins don't stink. But then again, I do this periodically. Not just once a year.