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brooklyn1 > wrote:

> I have a stainless steel compost bucket from Lee Valley by my sink.

Mine is a plastic snap lid container but SS would work just as well. I
keep some baking soda deodorant sprinkled in the bottom of it under the
bag liner.

> 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.

Crows are handy garbage disposals. ;-) My dogs generally get meat
scraps, but I limit the bones for safety reasons. I know you don't have
a dog.

> 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.

Since I don't put cans in there and any meat wrappers go directly into
the outdoor dumpster cart (much like yours, the city provides them),
they never have a reason to get curious about the kitchen trash can. All
tin or aluminum cans and various plastic and newspaper go into a covered
recycling trash can in a corner of the kitchen. Even tho' I rinse cans
and stuff, I still keep it covered. Otherwise it attracts these teensy
little flies that I don't want around. :-P

Used cat litter is bagged by itself when I clean the litter boxes and
goes straight out to the cart.

> 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.

That is gross. That stuff gets slimy! It's not like the old clay cat
litter. We used to poop scoop when we used the old style litter many
years ago and then dump it poop free into the garden and mix it into the
soil. It was great as a soil aerator, but you can't do that with the
scoopable stuff. That all goes to the landfill.

> 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.

Geeze. At least they could bury it! That's just so unsightly and gross.

> 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.

Well, I'm a suburbanite so trash cart pickup is kind of a given. I'm on
..22 acres. Some people outside of town burn some trash to save money,
but that's pretty heavily regulated, especially when it is dry. There is
a local landfill but I'm not sure what it costs to dump there. Many
people cheat and break the law, and sneak their trash into commercial
dumpsters like outside of convenience stores and stuff. <g> There really
is very little illegal dumping thank goodness!

I have two carts, two different colors. One for trash, one for
recycling. They recycle all metal, paper, cardboard and plastics #1 thru
#7. I recycle more trash than I toss out. :-)

>
> 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:
> http://i44.tinypic.com/9hm4iw.jpg
>
> http://i39.tinypic.com/b52x5g.jpg

I can imagine! My food scraps are tightly bagged tho' so my cart rarely
smells even in the summer. If it does, I hose it out, then dump a large
box of baking soda into it. That works a treat.
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