"Jeßus" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 01:13:59 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>"Roy" > wrote in message
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>>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.

Hardly. I have to smell the stink each time I open the bin! I have had
problems with fruit flies before but never this.