Mint-X® Best Practices

We’re passionate about keeping wildlife pests out of your trash to give our customers more peace of mind in managing a home. Our experts have come up with a list of amazing tips to make our trash bags even more effective.

The Proof is in The Pudding (and the Lab)
Mint-X® trash bags have been rigorously tested and proven to work in both lab and natural environments, so you can rest assured that they’ll work for you too!

Repetition is Key
They will learn that your trash is now the one that smells of terrible mint… and they learn to stay away.

The Mint-X® Trash Bags have been proven to reduce animal torn bags after one week of repetitive usage. If you just bought Mint-X® Trash bags and noticed that your bags were still torn into after the first night of usage, it’s OK that is normal. Continue using the Mint-X® bags. The curious rodents will soon learn to stay away from the Mint-X® bags altogether.

Why Double-Bag?
Larger, more aggressive rodents have the ability to tear through the trash bins and containers so as you can imagine, they’ll potentially do damage to anything that’s standing in the way of their dinner. These rodents’ hands are generally farther away from their nose so that they can swipe at the trash without having to get too close to it. Current Mint-X® users have told us that they’ve solved this issue by double bagging the trash the first week or two of usage, using a “fresh” bag right out of the box when the trash is left for collection. Double bagging the trash with a “fresh” Mint-X® Trash Bag ensures that these rodents will have to go through twice the effort to get through the Mint-X® force field, and they will learn to stay away from your trash faster. After the first week or two you can resume single bag usage.

Rodents are creatures of habit. This is the very reason why your trash gets torn into by the same rodents every night. Just as they learned that your house/property is the one.

Use only Mint-X® Rodent Repellent Trash Bags
When putting out the trash, be sure to use only Mint-X® Trash Bags. It is important not to commingle with other, non- Mint-X® Trash Bags. Rodents are famous for going into “feeding frenzies”. A. “Feeding Frenzy”, as it applies to trash bags, is when a group of rodents enter in a state of blind, aggressive eating. These feeding frenzies spread food everywhere and potentially reduce the effectiveness of the Mint-X® Trash Bags. Use only Mint-X® Trash Bags to create a force field around your garbage.

Clean out any trash container or storage area before using Mint-X®
The scent of food residue lingers in your trash container long after humans are able to smell it. By cleaning out your trash containers, you will ensure that the scent of food that sticks to the walls of the trash container does not rub off into the Mint-X® bag, thus defeating the purpose of the mint scent. This is one more step to achieve best results.

For best results, Mint-X® Bags should be used within 5 days of removing bags from Box
Like any scented product, the strength of the scent dissipates over time. Therefore, it is important to place the bag outside while the scent is the strongest. The time from bag removal from the box to trash pickup should not exceed 5 days, but the shorter the time period, the better the results. If the scent has weakened, put the bag into a “fresh” Mint-X® bag right out of the box, to ensure the potency of the scent.

Bait & Snap Traps
Using only the Mint-X® Trash Bags as a means to solving your rodent problem will not work. The Mint-X® Trash bag is an extremely effective tool for keeping rodents from tearing into your trash but additional measures need to be taken to ensure that the rodents are gone for good. The primary goal of the Mint-X® Trash Bag is to cut off the human food source and drive rodents to find alternative food sources such as bait and snap traps.

 

The 3 Biggest Mistakes Food Businesses Make

Do you remember the day when you made the decision that one day you wanted to own your own restaurant?

You wanted to have a busy, clean restaurant and kitchen, which you would be proud of, employ motivated and valuable staff, preparing the best meals and making money along the way. Well here a 3 things to help propel that dream!

The scariest thing that can happen to any food business owner is to lose their business either by Food Safety breaches and heavy government fines. Or worse still, to lose their repeat customers due to shortfalls in food and pest hygiene, which is so easily captured these days by smart phones and shared on social media.

Attention to Pest Hygiene – Particularly Cockroaches in the Kitchen
Most businesses take pride in keeping a clean restaurant and a clean kitchen for their customers to enjoy the great food that is served in their restaurant or café. however, managing the ongoing challenges of getting rid of cockroaches, rats and other pests, which are attracted to food waste is a long standing problem … until now!

Many business owners and operators feel it is too difficult to solve the pest problems that most food businesses are challenged with. Food business managers and staff openly admit that it is common to see cockroach sightings in many kitchens late at night or early morning when opening up. It is also common for kitchen staff to see rats outside near the garbage dumpster at night. Unfortunately, rat bait stations do very little when you provide them with a free feed in the garbage dumpster with normal garbage bags. All that money spent on pest control does not seem to make an impact on pest problems as there is “free food on the table every night” which is available within normal garbage bags sitting in the outside garbage dumpster every night.
 
Using Mint-X® Rodent and Cockroach REPELLENT Garbage Bags gets rid of the cockroaches in the kitchen, feeding within or near your kitchen garbage bin, when you have gone home at night. With fresh Mint-X® bags sitting in kitchen bins overnight, this Mint-X® scent is picked up by the cockroaches and after a couple of weeks, experience shows that the cockroaches decide to leave to find themselves a new home – away from your business.
 
Secondly, when the Mint-X® Rodent and Cockroach REPELLENT Garbage Bags end up in the garbage dumpster at night, the rats are no longer prepared to chew through a Mint-X® REPELLENT bag. The minty taste is just not worth it. There are easier meal options for them elsewhere!
 
Stopping rats accessing this food source outside means that the rats have to either go to the rat bait stations to feed or they go to another food business to feed in their garbage dumpster! Unless of course your neighbour is already using Mint-X® REPELLENT bags, and the rats have come to you?
 

Continuing to use normal garbage bags is like saying I don’t need to adopt new technology like a smart phone because there is nothing wrong with my landline phone. Innovation and technology means that food businesses, like every other business, need to adopt the smart tools to make their operations run more smoothly and ensure their customers keep coming back to produce a thriving business.

Other common area of risk is if your customer toilets are located outside or not far from a garbage dumpster, where your customers are likely to see rats or cockroaches during their short visit outside, especially if you are open for business at night? Is repeat business important for your success? Can customers leave costly comments on social media about your food business either on your online platform, or on Tripadvisor, or any other social media platforms? Can you afford to keep these ongoing problems continue in today’s world, easily sharing with your target market, via online comments, the pest problems they encountered in your restaurant?
 
What makes Mint-X® REPELLENT Garbage Bags such a significant breakthrough is that they are a unique pest repellent tool where every open bag is working for you – every second, every hour, every day to repel pests from your kitchens and bins, where most kitchens already use garbage bags every day and every night. And this is a chemical free process, providing you with a pleasant minty scent
 

Cleanliness
Cleanliness is the cornerstone of every successful food business as ensuring customers do not get food poisoning is a key consideration for a restaurant owner and manager. And while most food businesses work hard to keep their kitchen clean, it makes it very difficult for kitchen staff to take this seriously when they regularly see the occasional cockroach in the kitchen at night, while the lights are still on and the kitchen is busy and staff are preparing meals. While your staff might not say it, they will be imagining “what the hell is happening in the kitchen when the lights are off at night and all the staff have gone home?” The cockroaches would be free to roam over every centimeter of your stainless steel kitchen!

Your staff would be thinking “So why bother going to all that trouble of trying to be clean, when cockroaches are free to roam where ever they please?” There is nothing more disgusting than imagining a cockroach crawling over cooking utensils and preparation surfaces.
 
However, once the sight of pests are significantly reduced within the kitchen and outside around the garbage dumpster with Mint-X® Rodent and Cockroach REPELLENT Garbage Bags, the attitude within kitchen staff significantly improves to believing that they now have a truly clean kitchen.
 
This makes the enforcement of keeping and maintaining a clean kitchen for your staff a much easier task and is no longer an uphill battle for you to try to motivate your staff to keep telling them the same things again and again to keep the kitchen clean.
 
Furthermore, improvement in attitude to cleanliness also has significant benefits to your customers enjoying a healthy meal, this keeps Council Health Inspection Officer off your case, avoids fines and increases repeat business.
 

Eliminating Garbage Stench and Improving Staff Attitude
Did you know that large businesses spend a fortune on consultants trying to help them to find a way to motivate their staff to comply to work procedures and how to reward their staff without using money? After all, your staff are the key to your success and wealth, in order to reward you for the long hours you work week after week.

When you think about it, how many people would you say would enjoy working with the stench of garbage and seeing the sight of pests around garbage and garbage collection areas? If you said “not many”, then I would agree with you.
The feedback we have constantly received with Mint-X® REPELLENT Garbage Bags is that the pleasant minty smell neutralises the smell of garbage. This keeps the internal bins smelling nice as the minty smell gets slowly absorbed into the plastic bin, instead of the smell of rotting food being soaked into the plastic bin. When these Mint-X® bags are taken outside, they also neutralise the smell coming from the garbage dumpster. And as far as pests go, you also eliminate the disgusting sight of rats and other spine tingling vermin crawling around your bin area, especially at night when they all come out to feed.
How much do you think it is costing your business in keeping good staff, by paying skilled staff a premium to put up with these disgusting smells and sights? Or have you accepted that for your business the lower skilled staff are the only ones prepared to put up with the problems with pests in bins and the stench of garbage within your business?
Mint-X® bags have also been reported to achieve the following benefits of keeping pests away. Many rats feed and thrive from garbage dumpsters, even though they may not be seen by the Manager or Owner, but the staff know they are there. How would you like to make that a thing of the past for your valuable, highly trained, profit creating staff?
Imagine creating a work environment that when the bin is taken out there are no rats feasting on the garbage in the garbage dumpster? No rats to scare the staff every time a garbage bag is emptied? Imagine no more ibis, crows or magpies sitting on the dumpster and ripping into your garbage bags every time your dumpster is overflowing? No more flies trying to lay their eggs in food waste ripped open by other pests? How wonderful would it be to no longer see maggots in the bins on hot days?
And if you have a bin room or bin enclosure, then most food businesses should provide their staff a gas mask just to walk into the bin room to put the bin in the dumpster, just to avoid from throwing up, let alone trying to breathe in there. And when the boss is not there, then comes the staff argument as to whose turn it is to take out the garbage due to the bin room stench and disgusting sight of pests! Did you know you can neutralise the smell in the bin room just by making the switch to Mint-X® REPELLENT bags. This is a FREE and powerful benefit. Significantly improving the bin smell alone from the garbage bins has had an amazing shift in attitude in personnel taking out and working with garbage.
Many food businesses in order to control these odour problems will use chemicals and staff labour to try to combat the smell from the bins. The larger food businesses install odour neutralising electronic equipment, which costs thousands of dollars in capital and operating costs. And these machines do nothing to get rid of the pest problem. You get the smell neutralising benefits of Mint-X® bags for FREE every day when using Mint-X® bags.
Also many businesses spend a considerable amount on consultants and procedures to try to reduce their waste costs, as the need to optimise sorting of waste is pushing Councils to pass on waste costs to businesses. These procedures often go astray as the stench of garbage is just not worth the effort! After all, it’s usually management asking staff to do the right thing, put up with the smell and help the business increase profits. Does that sound like a recipe for success or one that is doomed for failure?
Mint-X® bags create that pleasant minty smell after a few days. Imagine a bin that smells nice and a garbage dumpster that has a neutral smell and keeps the pests away. Wouldn’t that be a nicer place to work at? Wouldn’t it be easier to keep good staff if they don’t have to put up with disgusting smells and disgusting sight of pests?
Most businesses know that they need to adopt smart practices to keep their businesses running efficiently and keep their customers coming back. Mint-X® REPELLENT Garbage Bags represent a smart innovation for the food industry. Mint-X® bags provide multiple benefits beyond just a garbage bag. You know that most people appreciate that a smart phone has far more capabilities and benefits over a desk phone, and are willing to enjoy the benefits that smart phones have to offer. Mint-X® Rodent and Cockroach REPELLENT Garbage Bags offer benefits far more than just a normal garbage bag, where normal bags attract pests and do nothing to neutralise the stench of garbage.
Business success is based on making smart business decisions. Is improving your business operations, reducing pest problems, keeping valuable staff and being able to better manage your waste and associated costs, important in your goals to create an ongoing and highly successful food business?
Mint-X® Rodent and Cockroach REPELLENT Garbage Bags are the solution providing an amazing tool that every smart food business needs to implement and start enjoying the multiple benefits of Mint-X® REPELLENT bags today.