Garbage Doctor® Deodorising and Scenting Systems
Destroy garbage odours in your garbage chute, bin room or garbage compactor
The Garbage Doctor® systems utilises our proprietary Si-Zone® (Ozone/Trioxygen) technology and are installed at the source of your rubbish odours (typically the bin room or compactor) to provide continuous 24/7 deodorisation with germicidal control.
Ozone is a highly effective neutraliser, well proven for garbage odours. In addition to these base systems, we also offer two optional add-ons:
1) Garbage Chute Scenting: Our scenting add-on to your Garbage Doctor® can create a beautifully fragranced garbage chute, bin room or compactor.
Common scenting options for chutes and bin rooms include: Lemon Myrtle & Orange, Aloe vera & Cucumber, Forest Nights, Riverstone, and Coconut & Vanilla.
2) Bin Room Insect control: If flying insects such as fruit flies & flies are causing an issue in your waste area, we offer the option to add pyrethrin (natural insecticide) to your Garbage Doctor scenting system, to provide additional treatment and protection.
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Video: Garbage Doctor® Products
- Garbage Chutes
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- Garbage Compactors
Our Garbage Doctor® systems are available for outright purchase, or as a fully-maintained rental. Please contact our team or visit the official Garbage Doctor website at www.garbagedoctor.com.au for more information.
Garbage Doctor® Deodorisers - Installation Examples
Garbage Doctor® Equipment Types
The Garbage Doctor® systems have a wide range of technologies available, depending on your odour management needs.
We recommend visiting the official Garbage Doctor® website at www.garbagedoctor.com.au, which has installation examples and photos of many different configurations, such as bin room odour control with chute scenting, garbage compactor deodorisation, and many others.
Examples of the odour neutralisation and germicidal technologies available, include; Ozone (Trioxygen), Germicidal UV-C, Photo Catalytic Oxidation (PCO), Carbon Filtration, and odour elimination using our Scented Vapour process, which leaves a pleasant residual fragrance in your garbage bin room or garbage chute.
Ozone
(Germicidal & odour control by oxidation)
Photo Catalytic Oxidation
(Germicidal & odour control by oxidation)
Scented Vapour
(Popular residual scenting to replace foul odours)
Germicidal UV-C
(Germicidal / pathogen control by irradiation)
Carbon Filtration
(VOC and odour removal)
What causes garbage odour?
Garbage odour is typically a result of waste decaying, which may include the release of foul smelling gases (such as Methane) or pathogens which can become airborne. In Australia, it is not uncommon to experience minimal garbage odours throughout the cool winter months, with the odours becoming progressively stronger as the temperatures rise into summer (and during busy periods such as Christmas, Easter and school holidays).
Even if your rubbish bins are emptied regularly, the waste may have actually started decaying in the residents apartment long before it was disposed into the common area (such as the garbage chutes or bins).
If your high-rise / low-rise apartment building has a garbage chute, garbage odours may become increasingly problematic if the lining of the chute is soiled (there are two main sources of garbage odour that travel through the chute, those odours originating from waste in the bins and those garbage odours originating from the chute lining).
For effective odour control in your garbage chute, it is important to address both sources of odours:
- Those odours originating from a dirty garbage chute (requires chute cleaning)
- Those odours originating from the smell of waste in the bins (requires a specialised odour control and/or scenting system such as our Garbage Doctor®)
How to scent your garbage chute
If your apartment building has a garbage chute, this can be beautifully fragranced with one of our popular scents. There is no question that chute scenting is a customer favourite, and we are constantly receiving great feedback from building managers, strata and residents.
Scenting a chute needs to be done correctly, which normally involves starting with Ozone (trioxygen) into the bin room at the base of the chute, and targeting the Ozone as close as possible to the original source of the odours – which is typically the garbage bins or compactor. It is important to neutralise the odours first, because this is the foul air which will eventually make its way up the chute. The Ozone also provides much needed germicidal control.
With the Ozone neutralising the smell of rubbish in the bin room, a pleasant scent can then be dispersed into the chute itself. This scent travels up the chute, with a small amount escaping around the chute door opening on each level of the building. As residents/guests dispose of their rubbish down the chute, they are greeted with a pleasant smell, which greatly improves their experience interacting with the buildings waste management system.
Our Garbage Doctor® Duo product provides an all-in-one scenting and ozone solution, specifically for bin room/chute combinations.
How to eliminate garbage odour
In our experience, Ozone (trioxygen) combined with other technologies such as Photo Catalytic Oxidation and Germicidal UV-C provides the most successful solution to remove garbage odours in commercial and apartment buildings, while also improving air quality (we recommend only using systems which provide germicidal control for improved hygiene in waste environments).
In some cases it can also be highly beneficial to introduce a scented vapour (whereas Ozone creates a ‘neutral’ smell). This is most commonly of benefit in large open spaces where Ozone cannot be targeted directly at all the odours sources, or in buildings where customer feel they would prefer to have a pleasant residual fragrance for customer experience or ‘scent marketing’ purposes etc.
Can you use both ozone and an odour neutralising fragrance in the same area?
With some exceptions, we generally recommend against this. Ozone cannot distinguish between a ‘good’ smell and a ‘bad’ smell, so the systems would effectively be working against each other. However, they can compliment each other in the right configuration. For example, using the scented vapour into a garbage chute, to leave a pleasant fragrance through the building, while targeting Ozone into the bin room to provide deodorisation and germicidal control as close as possible to the originating odour & pathogen source. This solution retains the benefit of physically destroying the odour molecules in the bin room – before they have a chance to travel through the chute system.
How is Ozone created?
Our Garbage Doctor® products include a Si-Zone® Ultraviolet Ozone generator, which creates Ozone internally using a specific bandwidth of Ultraviolet light. The Ozone from this generator is then pumped through PVC pipework and dispersed for optimum efficiency in controlling the odours and germs, which is typically as close as is possible to the rubbish source (i.e. over the garbage bins, into the garbage chute, or surrounding the garbage compactor).