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Re:Show HN: I've built self-opening trash bin, I relax mysel... by rusk on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @06:52AM (#24340375)
Treating this as an X/Y problem ... do you separate your waste? I separate anything that smells (non-compostable food waste, non-recyclable junk) into a separate pail, that is emptied every day or two, so it's never there long enough to get smelly. The dry recyclable stuff can stay in there as long as it wants, and the compostible stuff (waste vege material) never really smells too bad, but again gets tossed more frequently.
Re:Show HN: I've built self-opening trash bin, I relax mysel... by OJFord on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @08:01AM (#24340838)
Compost, and then recycling (paper/tins/glass mixed where I am) and rubbish in two bins in the same drawer thing.

That's part of the problem really - after compost and recycling I'm left with very little waste, so anything that there is can sit there a while. I tend to empty it because it's been there a while rather than because it's full.