Open Letter to Warn Rockford’s New Garbage Can Owners

[VIDEO] Rockford's top morning radio personality shares an important and gross warning for residents who will be getting new garbage cans and recycling carts.

New Garbage Cans for Rockford Residents

Nothing says you're an adult like the excitement over a brand-new, fresh, and clean, garbage can.

On February 26, the City of Rockford began distributing two new huge garbage cans and recycling carts to residents. It will take around 3 months for all of them to be distributed.

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Enjoy those pristine cans, because the nasty season is coming. And if the city's distribution schedule is accurate, the nasty season will arrive just about the time ALL the cans will be given out.

No matter how hard you might try, eventually, these new cans will start looking (and smelling) disgusting inside and out.

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It only takes one little piece of meat or some chicken juice, and your pristine garbage can becomes a home for

Maggots

A couple of days of intense heat and the inside of that can will become the perfect breeding ground for a maggot community.

I noticed a couple of hundred maggots crawling around the bottom of my trash can.

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Here's what I did after near vomiting.

It's moments like these you wish you could just walk away and the problem would fix itself. Nope. Time to get deep in this can and clean out the nasty.

What is a Maggot?

A maggot is the larvae of a fly. A fly lays eggs that turn into larvae (maggots), which become flies, lay more eggs, and so on. Basically, my garbage can looked like it had a couple of spoonfuls of long-grain white rice crawling around.

After a little research, I found that I wasn't going to have to get too intimate with these critters.

Best Way to Clean Maggots Out of Your Garbage Can

The first two things I needed for the job were a lime and some salt.

You had the same thought I did, I should make a margarita and deal with the maggots later.

You can dump some lime, salt, or vinegar in the can to kill maggots, but you have to cover them. Well, I only had one lime in the fridge that probably wasn't going to produce enough juice. I didn't want to waste my salt and I didn't have very much vinegar left.

I did go buy some vinegar for after the maggot mass murder, I'll explain why that's important in a moment.

After a little more research, I found that there is one way to kill maggots instantly and we all have it at home, every one of us.

Watch This Video!

Here's a video of the whole 'de-maggoting' process. IT WORKED PERFECTLY!

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I used the new bottle of vinegar to clean the can after completing my maggot destruction mission. The vinegar will also help keep maggots from reappearing.

Love,

Your maggot-free friend Steve

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