Well, trash bags already attract flies anyways. May as well have them lined with flypaper on the inside. Just a little bit near the top, facing inwards to reduce the likelihood of trash sticking to it. Doing this in a cheap way that actually works is not necessarily so easy and obviously just keeping trash covered perfectly is better.
-- aguydude, Oct 03 2008

This is a brilliant idea.

Sometimes I set up a "decoy" bit o' food on a plate, to trick the little bastards, (flies), so that I can enjoy my sandwich while sitting out of doors.

This would be great. I could do double duty with it. Decoy and trash at once. +!
-- blissmiss, Oct 06 2008


Neat [+]
-- 8th of 7, Oct 06 2008


This needs to be *unscented* flypaper; otherwise the risk is you may attract flies to your garbage when they wouldn't have discovered it on their own.
-- phundug, Oct 06 2008


// stop it sticking to the other side of the bag, //

Put it inside a cardboard tube, like the core out of bogroll ?
-- 8th of 7, Oct 06 2008


Good in theory, but I agree with UB, tough to implement. The key is when to peel off the cover.
-- MisterQED, Oct 06 2008


I'm not spending the rest of my life in a compost bin!
-- DrBob, Oct 07 2008



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