Cleaning Your Trash and Recycle Bins Can Help Keep Bugs Away
If your trash cans are even slightly open during the rainy season or around sprinklers that cover the area, you can get water into your trash cans. These can be the perfect place for mosquitoes to breed and create a major problem for anyone who gets close. The problem compounds when trash piles up around bins and gives bugs and mosquitoes even more places to breed and hide.
Dark, damp places are the perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes and other bugs. Don’t give mosquitoes the chance to make your trash cans their home. Empty trash regularly and keep your bins clean, so they are not attractive breeding grounds for flying and crawling insects.
Call the Coachella Valley trash and recycle bin cleaners at EZ Bin Cleaning to schedule regular or one-time bin cleanings today!
Why Cleaning Your Bins Helps Prevent Bugs
Garbage attracts most bugs because of the smells, access to food waste, and dark hiding spaces, and this attraction includes mosquitoes. More often than not, garbage, recycling, and compost bins are stored in the garage or near your home, surrounded by other boxes, cans, or items that can also house mosquitoes. What does this mean for your family? You could be accidentally creating the perfect place for mosquitoes to breed and wait for their next meal to walk by, and it could be you!
If you take the time to clean your bins, especially cleaning out smells and standing water, be sure to remove other items around the bins that could attract bugs.
Make sure there is no standing water in places such as:
- Plastic buckets or their lids
- Tarps with folds and creases that can house water
- Pottery without drainage holes
- Discarded cups or food storage
- Bottles and cans
- Old tires
- Children’s toys
Mosquitoes can breed in even the tiniest amount of water, so making sure they do not have access to any stagnant water you can avoid will help keep numbers to a minimum around your home. Preventing stagnant water and strong-smelling garbage will help reduce the attractiveness of the areas around your home so you can enjoy time outside without increasing the risk of mosquito bites.
Clean Bins with Coachella Valley’s EZ Bin Cleaning
Smelly garbage bins and water create the perfect storm when it comes to mosquitoes and other bugs. Regular cleanings for your trash, recycling, and green waste bins can reduce the smells and keep bugs from making your garbage area their home. Don’t give creepy crawlers or pesky flying insects any more reason to get comfortable around your home. Clean your bins professionally with help from the eco-friendly trash bin cleaners at EZ Bin Cleaning.