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.