Horrible Disgusting Maggots

No, I am not talking about the Tea Party or those whacked-out Baptists. I'm talking about our new garbage program where ALL food products are composted. How is it going? It is pretty gross BUT I'm already seeing it is worth it. Incredibly worth it.

We recycle metal, plastic, glass and paper and the city recently gave every house a giant green rolling garbage can for yard debris and ALL food and compostable products. Seriously! Almost everything can go in the green can. All foods, pizza boxes, bones, meat, etc. etc. It was hard getting used to it but now we're starting to get into the habit.

What is amazing is that we now produce less than half a small can of garbage each week. Three adults, dog, two cats=half a can of garbage. Almost all of it is plastic from packaging. In Switzerland they only allow biodegradable plastic--if we had that here we would probably have almost no garbage at all.

The only drawback so far, now that it is high summer and hotter each day...stinky, hot, rotting food sitting in the can. (in the old days the same food would have been in the garbage can but tied up inside a plastic garbage bag.)

Fruit flies and maggots love the new system.

So... I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas on how to keep the bugs down. I LOVE that we are barely contributing to the landfill but I gotta figure out the bug situation. Anyone have any ideas? We found compostable plastic bags but they were crazy expensive.