Flying insect control for commercial garbage bin rooms and chutes (flies and fruit flies)

• A pyrethrin surface spray. A treatment usually sprays the top half of the bin room with a pyrethrin and water mixture, which often helps for several months. Your team can buy the product and do the treatment themselves, and we're happy to point them in the right direction. A Commercial concentration product is required, please contact us and we will be happy to point you in the right direction.
• UV fly traps. Very effective against flies, though less so against the small fruit flies. We offer these as rental option with our commercial odour control systems, and they're also sold online and at hardware stores. For most bin rooms, we recommend a commercial trap with a UV lamp of at least 20 W, installed near the rubbish. Avoid decorative ones: a garbage room is a hostile place, and the trap needs maximum efficency.
• Odour control. The Garbage Doctor^® isn't an insecticide, but the machine runs 24/7 to neutralise the odours in the bin room, with a pleasant fragrance too if you'd like one.

There are two ways a fly trap catches insects: an electric grid that zaps them, or a glueboard. For a garbage room, we recommend an electric grid, and not a glueboard:

• An electric grid trap can hang from the ceiling, usually on the chain that comes with the trap, giving light all the way round. That makes the trap far more effective for the same wattage: the more UV light the trap gives off, the more flies and fruit flies are drawn to the light.
• An electric trap keeps working. An electric grid trap is generally self-cleaning, and doesn't lose effectiveness as a glueboard does. The only upkeep, apart from new lamps, is emptying the catch tray, which lasts many months in most garbage rooms.
• A glueboard fills up fast in a garbage room. Glueboards suit kitchens and food preparation areas, but in a bin room they fill with insects quickly and lose their effect. We've seen many bin rooms where the glueboard changes were neglected, or so rare that the trap did little.

We can supply fly traps for your bin room as part of a Garbage Doctor package, with their upkeep, such as test and tagging and new lamps. If you'd rather buy one outright, Insect-o-Matic, a UK maker, has a wide range of electric fly traps; we've used and can recommend the SE22 and SE44 models. Bunnings sells a 40 W commercial range of bug zappers, which we've seen working well in garbage rooms, for a modest price.

The Duo neutralises the odour in the bin room with ozone, and adds a fragrance to the chute or the room.