How do you keep the trash can from stinking?
We don’t have a lot of gross, stinky trash in it, but it still stinks! I wash the bottom of the can out a lot too, and still no luck! I always seem to smell the garbage. Any suggestions?
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Throw it away more often.
toss it more often, use scented bags
Try not to throw your food into the trash. Its best to dump out scraps outside. It should eliminate a lot of the smell by doing so. Also if you wash out your cans and milk cartons it will help. Hope this helps.
Don’t put any garbage in it that can rot. If you do, it will always stink. have a separate trash can for food disposal, and keep it elsewhere, like in a cabinet under the sink or in the garage so you can’t smell it.
Scrub out the sides and bottom with something like Lysol. The put water in bottom with the disinfectant and let it sit for a day. A lot of junk gets caught in seams…….if metal can. Plastic can score and hold bacteria. Scrub as best you can, you’ll never get it free smelling.
Then, don’t put the stinky stuff out until collection day. What to do with it? Wrap up tight and freeze it! Just remember that’s not food for dinner up there, it’s what’s going out!
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Try to empty it once a day.
When you wash it, you might try Lysol Concentrate (stronger than the household cleaner – link below). Put one cup in the empty trash can, fill it with hot water, let it soak for at least an hour, then scrub well. Then put it out in the sunshine to dry.
When it is dry, sprinkle a cup of baking soda in the bottom of the trash can before you put another trash can liner in it. A layer of newspaper in the bottom, with the baking soda sprinkled on it, is even better. Then replace the newspaper when you change bags.
It will help a LOT if you don’t put leftover food in it, especially if you can’t empty the trash can that day. Either put it down the garbage disposal, in a compost pile, etc.
Editing to add: I don’t wash the meat trays that come from the grocery store, but I do put them in grocery bags and tie them shut.
When my babies wore disposable diapers, I didn’t put them in the kitchen trash can unless I was getting ready to take it out. (I kept a separate trash can for them in the baby’s room.) I also used grocery bags as above for soiled diapers.
OK, you have a lot of good answers, and one thing left out. Always wash those pads that are on the bottom of meat when you buy it. You know, it’s between the plastic and the meat and soaks up the blood. This is what really makes the trash STINK. Wash that thing out because when it is in the can and it starts to get hot then you get the smell. Wash it out the best you can, then double wrap it in a plastic bag you get at the store when bought the meat. Also scrub the can out and sprinkle baking soda in the bottom of the can. Double wrap diapers the same way, just don’t try to wash those things out! YIKES!!!! Good luck.
A cup of borax in the can under the plastic liner. I take plenty of paper from the paper shredder and put into the bottom of the bag the first thing after replacing the bag. The paper quickly absorbs wetness from any wet garbage. I use Disinfectant spray like Lysol on anything that I think might get moldy or smelly or attract fruit flies before it gets taken outside.