It's so strange, I can't wash the smell of rotten food out of my garbage can?
I've washed it several times now and it's spotless! But the smell doesn't disappear? It's made out of plastic
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Plastics have porous surfaces which absorb smells, stains, bacteria or whatever. Like say as an example, if you microwave some baked beans in a plastic container a few times that plastic container will eventually end up stained orange and no matter how much you try scrubbing that container that stain will never come out because that stain is trapped inside the porous surface.
So smell is exactly the same you got rotten food in the bottom of a plastic garbage can the air born particles created are all trapped inside the bin for days they can't escape anywhere so they eventually get absorbed into the plastic over time.
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So smell is exactly the same you got rotten food in the bottom of a plastic garbage can the air born particles created are all trapped inside the bin for days they can't escape anywhere so they eventually get absorbed into the plastic over time.
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AdaXI · T
@MartinTheFirst It's not a straight forward answer as plastic isn't technically even a porous material as such. More accurately sh!t can simply get trapped between the layers of the plastic and usually the more flexible the plastic the more likely it will be porous as in it bends it creates minor weak spots along surface for sh!t to seep inside the first few layers. So like UPVC plastic drainage pipes are totally solid so they won't be all that porous compared to say a plastic milk carton.
That is a very broad generalisation BTW I mean there is a gazillion different types of plastic some made to credibly high quality specs like I got a really cheap plastic bin in my kitchen and doesn't take it long to build up odour because its cheap thin flexible plastic that's not up to the job a better made one wouldn't smell as bad or it would take longer to build up that smell.
Personally I just clean it out then spray it with a nice smelling foam cleaner and leave it to soak in a few hours and wipe it down but baking soda, pine disinfectant or whatever you got handy under the sink will that smells nice just wipe it all over the inside leave it to soak in a few hours should neutralise the smell.
Thanks for BC.
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That is a very broad generalisation BTW I mean there is a gazillion different types of plastic some made to credibly high quality specs like I got a really cheap plastic bin in my kitchen and doesn't take it long to build up odour because its cheap thin flexible plastic that's not up to the job a better made one wouldn't smell as bad or it would take longer to build up that smell.
Personally I just clean it out then spray it with a nice smelling foam cleaner and leave it to soak in a few hours and wipe it down but baking soda, pine disinfectant or whatever you got handy under the sink will that smells nice just wipe it all over the inside leave it to soak in a few hours should neutralise the smell.
Thanks for BC.
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AdaXI · T
@MartinTheFirst I'm an engineer by trade and I understand a tiny bit about tensile strengths of industrial materials and malleability stuff like PVCs and metals mostly which is why it is just a very broad generalisation. I mean some plastics will cost a fortune to make and will be very impenetrable and flexible at the same time but yeah your standard working materials like UPVC window frames or drainage piping they don't suffer the same weaknesses like staining and trapping bacteria as when it's been Plasticised and it has more flexibilty movement.
But like I say many many factors in how well it gets made as to how good the plastic will be for the job.
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But like I say many many factors in how well it gets made as to how good the plastic will be for the job.
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AdaXI · T
@MartinTheFirst And yes I have had a similar problem before like we got a dog I had my black bin bag just collecting the rubbish on the kitchen floor which he was interested in so got on ebay bought the cheapest trash can I could find at the time just to get it out of the way but unsurprisingly 6 months later it absolutely stunk, then I sat back and thought yeah it's the sh!tty plastic it's been made with. I mean it's not like I'd of just added it all this together off top of my head without having the same problem, lolz
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