

Grab your garden hose and sprayer attachment, and turn it on to the most powerful sprayer setting. (Don’t have a good spot outside to wash your trash can? Take it to a self-serve car wash and spray it down there!) Step 3 – Wash It Once you’ve relocated your empty trash can, squirt a bit of dish soap into the bottom of the can. Next, pull your trash can to an area you don’t mind getting wet and soapy, like a driveway, the gutter, or even your lawn. (If you don’t want to wait, you can always just pull any trash out of the can and set it aside somewhere.) Step 2 – Add Soap The best way to do this (if you can time it right) is to wait to clean your trash can until right after it’s been emptied out by the garbage truck. In order to properly clean your trash can, you’ll need to empty it out entirely.

Broom, scrubber, or long-handled scrub brush (optional).In today’s blog post, I’ll be sharing a simple step-by-step process for how to deodorize your outdoor trash cans quickly and easily! How To Deodorize A Stinky Outdoor Trash Can And the stench is about ten times worse once you open the lid-it’s enough to trigger anyone’s gag reflex!īut luckily for me (and for those of you who also struggle with this problem), there’s a fairly simple solution to the problem of stinky outdoor trash cans. Why? Well, when it’s nearly 100☏ outside and our big black trash cans are full of garbage, it’s not uncommon to be able to smell all that garbage from several feet away. For one, I absolutely ABHOR taking the trash out to our big outdoor trash cans during the summertime. I’ve always been a summer girl at heart, but even I can admit there are certain drawbacks to all this hot weather.
