Keep your garbage can clean with cat litter

If you’re like me, that little bit of OCD in you absolutely loathes the nasty sticky mess at the bottom of the garbage can. I had to clean my garbage cans recently because a bag tore open and leaked gross stinky garbage liquid all over the bottom. Since that cleaning, I vowed to never do it again and have found a pretty good way of keeping a garbage can’s bottom clean and tidy. The magic solution is cat litter – who’d have known right? Here’s what you do:

[step 1] Clean your garbage cans with hot water and let them dry completely.

[step 2] Buy a bag of Fresh Step Crystals silica based cat litter and put enough into each can to cover the bottom.

Soaks up leaks and reduces odors

[step 3] Use the garbage can like you normally would. If you have a leak, the crystals will absorb the liquid and the stink.

NOTE: Throw out and replace the Crystals every 6 months or so.

That’s it.

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