What do you do with them?
All wriggley, white and falling off the green bin in clumps.
What I do is get the ABBA song Dancing Queen going in my head.
Then you replace the word Dancing with the word maggot.
So you’re singing something that sounds like “diggin’ the maggot queen.”
It may not sound pretty, but it helps you though the revulsion of dealing with the maggots.
August 1st, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Maybe switch to a vegetarian diet?
August 1st, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Ew.
August 1st, 2008 at 11:36 pm
I’m still trying to figure out your recycling schedule. They pick up your scraps one week and your compostables the next? Cool!
August 3rd, 2008 at 9:03 pm
The horrors of the green bin in mid-summer, huh? It’s bad enough I saw them in the outside green bin, but last summer I opened my little indoor green bin and it was swimming with them. I guess a fly had laid some eggs and there we were. I ran upstairs in horror and barfed.
August 4th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
The thing about maggots is you have all the control!
I won’t get into the don’t buy it if your not going to eat it or finish your leftovers for lunch because i’m sure your parents tried their best and logic dictates less waste less maggots!
So lets cut to the chase if you have wast and a specific collection day and it’s hot outside keep your waste in the freezer until your day it will not affect the compostability of the waste and you might even be appreciated by the HUMAN BEING who is picking up your waste because i promise you that song does not impress!
August 4th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Patrick, yup, I have thought of that
Espanya, ew ain’t the word
Barbara, once every two weeks for the green bin. I got the wrong week
Jacy, that’s why I don’t have an indoor green bin – I put it in a bowl then dump it in a newspaper and remove immediately
Darka, I did have the scraps in the freezer, but if you read the column (link provided) you would have seen that I pulled the stuff out of the freezer on the wrong week
August 6th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
I know, unless you have an open wound that needs cleaning, or a resevoir full of Tench or Bream they really don’t have much use! On the upside, they aren’t 4ft long!