Omelet wrote:

>In article > ,
> Dave Smith > wrote:
>
>> maxine in ri wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > For the household compostables, we've cut off the top of half gallon
>> > milk bottles, leaving the handle, and use those for food prep
>> > trimmings. Easy to carry out to the compost piles, easy to rinse out
>> > when they get squidgy, and easy to replace by purchasing another
>> > plastic milk jug for times of need. The old one goes in the plastics
>> > recycling bin and Bob's your Uncle.
>>
>>
>> We have a stainless bucket with a lid for compose garbage and take it
>> out to the compost thingamabob in the back yard, and a second one for
>> bones and fat that we use bags in to go to the compost garbage pickup.
>
>I have a covered container that is plastic lined on the kitchen sink. I
>never put food scraps into the kitchen trash. Makes it stink. I also
>don't have a garbage disposal in the sink. This is so much easier. Tie
>it up and take it out every day or two and put it directly into the
>outdoor dumpster. The cats stay out of the trash and my kitchen does
>not smell like rotting garbage.

I have a stainless steel compost bucket from Lee Valley by my sink.
During winter when the weather won't allow me to get to the composter
I dump the compost stuff into a plastic pail outside my garage door,
it never stinks because during winter it's frozen solid. Any meat
scraps get tossed into my yard, the crows make quick work of anything
meaty. My trash bag hangs from a large cup hook screwed into the door
jamb at the back door to my garage, it never stinks because no food
items go in that bag... I only keep it way high out of reach so the
cat's don't get too curious. My trash consists of packaging
materials, milk containers, paper, cardboard, tin cans, jars and such,
nothing that can stink. I really don't generate a lot of trash; once
a week I fill one standard sized trash can, more than half is used cat
litter... a lot of people around here toss their used cat litter into
their woods but I think that's nasty, I keep my property clean. I
have private trash pick up, $23/month, but many people here wont pay
it so they dump all trash on their property, I think that is
disgusting. Some at least bring their trash to the town dump where
they pay I think $2.50 each large trash bag. I think it costs less to
let the private sanitation pick up rather than drive to the dump each
week. Private sanitation wiol pick up two cans but I only generate
enough for one. Living where their are cold winters, for much of the
year I don'concern myself with garbage smelling.

My typical winter trash pick up, even if there's any food it will
won't stink, a good portion of the time it's frozen solid:
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