On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 01:13:59 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"Roy" > wrote in message
...
>On Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 9:56:57 PM UTC-6, Julie Bove wrote:
>> I haven't really had this problem before. Not that I can recall anyway.
>> As
>> I have said before, we are required to compost food scraps now and I don't
>> have a compost pile or need or want one so I put the scraps in the yard
>> waste bin. But we are having a long stretch of unseasonable hot weather!
>>
>> I attempted to clean the bin out last week because the super wet grass
>> clippings made it smell like a cow pasture. But today it smelled like
>> liquor! Most of what was stuck to the bottom was lemon rinds/slices and
>> other fruit/vegetable scraps. I've been making a lot of smoothies and
>> lemon
>> water. I also tossed out some candy that I bought for myself only to
>> discover that I couldn't eat it and nobody else I know likes it. They're
>> organic candies that are akin to gum drops. And while the candies
>> themselves do not contain corn, they put cornstarch in the molds so that
>> the
>> candies will plop out easier. The candies are covered in sugar crystals.
>> Could the sugary candy have been the culprit here?
>>
>> I should also add that while we are supposed to put the food in Biobags, I
>> don't always do that. Reason being, wet foods will eat through a Biobag
>> so
>> quickly that I can't always get it out to the bin before I have a hole in
>> the bag. So those wet lemon rinds and slices went right straight in
>> there.
>>
>> Anyone have any suggestions? Trying to dump the remains of the bin out
>> and
>> washing it out are not working for me as someone else who lives here will
>> just put the stuff right back in the bin and close the lid.
>
>You are required to have a composter but refuse to buy one. THERE IS THE
>PROBLEM...you refuse to play by the rules. And...that "someone else" as you
>describe the unknown person that inhabits your house, has no other
>alternative but to make the best of a bad situation.
>
>I see composters for sale quite often...perhaps you might watch for such
>a thing and BUY one.
>
>This might solve your problem of home brewing of your waste.
>===
>
>No. I am not required to have a composter. I can either compost or put it
>in the yards waste. I have no need whatever for compost. My yard waste is
>composted elsewhere. I think the problem is the hot weather.

So problem solved then.