Why You Should Clean Your Wheelie Bins Regularly

Everybody knows that food scraps and rubbish is a haven for germs and parasites.

If your bins are not cleaned regularly the scraps of food and rubbish residue will rot and attract germs, maggots and flies. Especially inside and around your wheelie bin where 9 times out of 10 it’s warm and damp.

When you empty you “inside” bins there is the possibility for you to touch the germs and take them back inside with you. If flies, cockroaches, rats or mice also touch the rubbish they can get disease-causing germs on them and anything they touch is then likely to get some of the germs. 

Here is a list of the diseases which people can get as a result of poor rubbish and pest control.

These are some bacterial diseases:

• salmonellosis
• shigellosis
• staphyloccal food poisoning
• skin infections
• tetanus

Viral diseases include:

• trachoma
• hepatitis A
• gastroenteritis
• Murray Valley encephalitis
• Ross River virus disease

Parasitic diseases include:

• hookworm
• threadworm
• roundworm

People can transmit germs directly from the rubbish after comi ng into contact with their bins. For example, children may come into contact with rubbish when they play in the garden. Another risk is that you or your children will cut yourself allowing tetanus bacteria to enter the body.

Disease spreading animals such as:

• flies
• mosquitoes
• rats and
• mice

can live and breed in and around your wheelie bins. This provides a perfect environment and vehicle for germs and parasites to spread. This is why you should have your bins cleaned as often as possible.

Cockroaches can breed in rubbish and can carry disease-causing germs, like those that cause food poisoning and transfger to food and cooking utensils.

If you have old cans or containers water can collect and become a breading ground for mosquitoes and here in Ballina which is a sub-tropical region mosquitoes can carry some horrible diseases.