Garbage smells if it's left long enough for decomposition to start. The first thing to do is clean the empty can thoroughly with a bleach solution and let dry completely. Take your garbage out of the house every night.
Consider getting a smaller trash can. It may seem counter-intuitive to downsize, but having a smaller receptacle will force you to take the trash out more often, and it will mean that the stuff at the bottom of the can has not been lingering there for weeks on end.
Use high-quality trash bags. You want trashbags that are thick enough to hold in odors and sturdy enough not to spew garbage or leak funky juices as you drag them down five flights of stairs. Better trash bags equal less-stinky trash cans—and sometimes it's not the trash, but the can, that really reeks (so clean that often, too).
Moisture is not your friend because a damp environment allows bacteria to thrive. Before you throw something to the trash, drain off any excess liquid into the sink. Don't even think about throwing your old soup into the trash. Or, at the very least, put it in its own, leakproof container first.
Contain the smelliest stuff in a bag of its own—and expel it from your kitchen ASAP. Fish scraps, animal bones, leftovers that have seen better days, spoiled (or soon-to-spoil) dairy products, and banana peels should be contained to separate, sealable containers (the plastic grocery bags exploding under your sink, the cardboard boxes from cereal or crackers) before they get dumped into the trash at large. Better yet, set aside a separate bag for these
Start composting—it's the best way to keep all your potentially-smelly food scraps in the same, very contained area. If you're worried about the countertop compost bin stinking up your kitchen (but, if it's well-made, it shouldn't!) keep it in the freezer.
Reduce your amount of trash by cooking with the "scraps" that aren't really scraps at all.
Add an odor-absorber.
You know that a box of baking soda absorbs the odors in your fridge, so it makes sense that it can absorb the odors in the trash can, too. Sprinkle baking soda all over the inside of the can—or even throw some directly into the bag. It's also a powerful cleaning tool: Mix it with lemon juice and vinegar to scrub down your can between trash take-outs.
Add a sprinkling of cat litter to the bottom of your trash can. It absorbs odors and liquids (obviously) and contains bacteria and smell inhibitors. Change it every week or when it's damp. But be warned that cat litter (even clean cat litter) has its own, often slightly chemically, smell.
Dryer sheets—even used dryer sheets—will absorb the stink. Add a couple to trash can before you put in the bag.
The old coffee grounds you were about to throw away? Those are powerful smell sponges, too. Mound a layer of used, *dry* coffee grounds in the bottom of the trash can (avoid the mess by stuffing the grounds into used pantyhose and tossing the bundle every week, or so).
In our home we put any wet garbage and uneaten food in plastic bags before dumping it in the trash can. We re-use ziplock bags, grocery bags and any other type bag available. Grocery bags often aren't leak proof so on occasion I have tied a knot at the bottom before using it.
Our town has no trash removal so we must take it to transfer station ourselves. If we have "smelly" trash, like lobster shells etc. I put it in the freezer till we're ready to go. for other things, like fish paper from the grocery store, I put them in the sink and as I am doing other clean up they also get "cleaned" in other words, don't put anything "smelly" in your trash.
Our garbage is always contained in a plastic grocery bag and tied shut before taking it out to the can, but it always stinks by garbage day, try rinsing out the garbage can with vinegar water after garbage day when the can is empty. As far as in the house, stopped using garbage cans in the house because no one ever took it out until the can was overflowing, so it smelled. Grocery bags are small enough to not start to smell and because of the small size also encourages recycling.
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Garbage smells if it's left long enough for decomposition to start. The first thing to do is clean the empty can thoroughly with a bleach solution and let dry completely. Take your garbage out of the house every night.
Add an odor-absorber.
I just take the trash out every night to the bin.
In our home we put any wet garbage and uneaten food in plastic bags before dumping it in the trash can. We re-use ziplock bags, grocery bags and any other type bag available. Grocery bags often aren't leak proof so on occasion I have tied a knot at the bottom before using it.
Our town has no trash removal so we must take it to transfer station ourselves. If we have "smelly" trash, like lobster shells etc. I put it in the freezer till we're ready to go. for other things, like fish paper from the grocery store, I put them in the sink and as I am doing other clean up they also get "cleaned" in other words, don't put anything "smelly" in your trash.
Try teaspoon of baking soda I'm bag.
Our garbage is always contained in a plastic grocery bag and tied shut before taking it out to the can, but it always stinks by garbage day, try rinsing out the garbage can with vinegar water after garbage day when the can is empty. As far as in the house, stopped using garbage cans in the house because no one ever took it out until the can was overflowing, so it smelled. Grocery bags are small enough to not start to smell and because of the small size also encourages recycling.