Welcome To South Bay Can Cleaners
South Bay Can Cleaners is a local, family-owned business founded by longtime Manhattan Beach locals/neighbors/friends, Shane and Tim. Our kids were born and raised here, and we love the South Bay for the same reasons you do. Our goal is to protect and enhance the environment that makes our beach cities so special.
We can all agree that it is incredibly nice here. The weather is nice. The beaches are nice. The people, neighborhoods, schools and houses are nice. Even the dogs are nice, except for Shane’s middle dog, Charlie.
What’s definitely not nice are the trash cans. We basically live on top of them, with some being in garages and others being outside alongside the houses. Wherever any of our cans are, they certainly aren’t far – and they stink! Most trash cans are awful and serve as a breeding ground for flies and rodents. Not to mention they are covered in harmful bacteria and germs.
A 2007 study conducted by Lysol determined trash cans contain more than 411 million bacteria per square inch on average including E. coli, salmonella and listeria.
Why Use A Trash Can Cleaning Service?
Dirty trash cans are a breeding ground for harmful germs, bacteria viruses and pests. Any of the above can pose health risks to you, your family, your neighbors and/or your employees. And they stink (the cans)! South Bay Can Cleaners uses specifically designed equipment, eco-friendly and ocean-safe processes and solutions to remove dirt, grime and waste. And we kill potentially harmful germs, bacteria and viruses while we’re at it. Our trash can cleaning service will leave your cans clean and hygienically safe.
Disinfecting trash cans can be a time-consuming, messy task. You want them clean, but do you actually want to lift the lid, get down in there and scrub them? Are the kids able to do it? And do you want them using dish soap and a squirrelly hose to battle filth and germs? Or try to get rid of e-coli, salmonella, listeria and/or influenza? What will you do with the soap, water and whatever you’re trying to clean off the cans when you’re done?
Click the button below to enroll in our trash can cleaning service, and go surf instead. We’ll get your cans clean, make them nice again and take everything with us. No solvents or chemicals, no runoff to the neighbors’ houses, beach or the environment.
Can Cleaning Process
We come to clean your bins the day after trash collection day
Step 1 Cans are loaded upside-down onto 3,500 PSI power-wash heads spinning at 360 degrees
Step 2 Cans are sanitized and steam-cleaned with a 200 degree hot water/ high-pressure wash system that kills 99.9% of germs & bacteria
Step 3 Our highly customized truck collects and stores the washwater, providing an eco-friendly and ocean-safe sanitary clean
Step 4 Each can receives a final inspection, a treatment of odor neutralizing fragrant spray, and are returned curb-side looking and smelling sparkling clean
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MONTHLY
service plan
Every 4 Weeks
$25/ can
ONE-TIME
cleaning
As Requested
$50/ can
Our Garbage Can Cleaning Service Areas
Service is provided the day after your trash is picked up
Our Story
Smelly trash cans have always been a hot topic during neighborhood street chats/gatherings…and everyone has a breaking point!
Tim’s came the day he trapped the 12th possum in his garage, chased a raccoon away from the cans, and got vertigo looking into his recycling bin. He’d had enough. So he mixed bleach, dish soap, hot water, mentos, and Pepsi (no mentos or Pepsi, but glad you’re still reading), into the cans. Cranking up the pressure to hose it all out, he naturally wound up spraying it all back on himself. Tim subsequently scrubbed the cans, and dumped them in the sunny street to dry off. Unfortunately, he then watched a river of maggots and doggie bag contents flow past his neighbor’s kids playing in the yard. It kept going – into the storm drain and down to the ocean where his boys were surfing. One problem solved, one more created. If only there was an eco-friendly trash can cleaning service to handle this!
Shane’s cans are jammed into a three-foot setback alongside his house, directly below his dining room and kitchen windows. One day one of his cans had so many maggots that the entire bottom of the can moved mysteriously on its own. We all know what happened next, that can subsequently became the launchpad for a blitzkrieg of flies into the kitchen. The camouflage salt gun and electric fly zapper were no match for that infestation.
South Bay Can Cleaners was created to solve a nasty and consistent problem that no one wants to deal with on their own. Being a Manhattan Beach based trash can cleaning service, we also prioritize our largest and most important neighbor – the ocean. We designed and built a truck that cleans and actually disinfects trash cans. No chemicals, soaps or solvents – just super-hot/high-pressure water that kills germs, eliminates odors and reduces vermin attraction. We capture the dirty water from each cleaning and take it away to be processed in an environmentally-friendly manner. Our process is safe for kids, pets, your neighbors, and the environment (including the ocean)! At the end of the cleaning process, we leave your cans clean, fresh, and nice again!