On Saturday, April 3, 2021 at 10:56:02 AM UTC-5, wrote:
>
> When garbage pickup is several days away, I try not to put anything
> in that would get stinky. The stro trays that chicken comes in,
> with the absorbent thing in the bottom will get smelly, so I
> microwave them before putting them in the garbage. That is all.
>
> --Bryan
>
Anything that I know will get stinky in the garbage goes into double plastic
bags. Bags like that you receive from the Dollar Tree, Dollar General, Home
Depot, Kroger, etc. Those styrofoam trays and those absorbent meat pads
all go in the freezer in those plastic bags. They will stay there until either the
night before if I put out my garbage then or the morning of garbage collection.

Many, many years ago I rinsed one of those meat pads until the water ran clear.
Then it was tossed in the kitchen garbage can but when I came home from work
the next day it smelled like someone had died in my kitchen and was decomposing.
Since then all potentially smelly garbage goes into the plastic bags and then into
the freezer.