Originally posted by: ChurchOfSubgenius
It never sits in my house long enough to be a consistant problem, I have 3 kids and we produce lots of it (and recycle too)
I would fall under the catagory of "too lazy to do anything about it" except take a stinky bag, toss some stuff from laundry room/other bathrooms in it, take it out.
Exactly. At home, if anything was to be thrown out that had food on it, it was to at least be rinsed first. Food items, such as coffee grounds or banana peels, were put into a sealed Rubbermaid/Tupperware style container, which were then composted. Recyclables would be washed with the dishes and put in a separate bag.
My apartment is in the same building as a small general store, and I get to use their dumpsters, so nothing ever has to sit around long enough to start to stink.
In the campus apartment, with the first group of people I lived with, the trash stank of decaying food and beer, and was emptied rarely. It would usually get so heavy that something would tear through and it'd start dripping. The kitchen sink even had a garbage disposal, but only myself and one other person used it. Everyone else just threw everything in the trash. What did they do about it? Use the garbage disposal? Rinse stuff off first? Stop wasting food? Take out the trash more often? No. Of course not. They stocked up on air fresheners. That place was a gross museum of odors.
Oh, and the bathroom had an exhaust fan. Guess how often that'd get used.