I Freeze My Garbage
Not all of it!! But the perishables…yeah, you bet!
It started about 10 years ago when we moved into an apartment that offered weekly garbage pick up. I thought that sounded nice. What I didn’t consider was that the garbage pick up location was located right outside our apartment door….for the entire building!! Another issue with this policy was that the apartment complex did NOT have a dumpster. I couldn’t get rid of my garbage if I wanted to. The rules were that you couldn’t put your garbage out until after 9pm the night before pick-up. Do you think that people complied?? Yeah, no. It was so disgusting I am relieved that we only lived there for a year!
I followed the rules because I didn’t want to bother others with our garbage (I wish everyone was considerate!), but in order to control the odor I started freezing our perishables. Banana peels, apple cores, vegi scraps, meat trimmings, etc (things that didn’t go through the disposer well). I have been doing it for so long now, it has become a habit. I can’t imagine immediately throwing away anything that might rot, fester or attract bugs and rodents!
Since I am also recycling, I usually only produce one kitchen garbage can worth of garbage a week. The idea of leaving smelly stuff in there all week *shudder* well, I just don’t want to smell it or live with it. I guess I could compost it, but I personally have no use for compost. In addition our HOA rules require that we keep our garbage in the garage until garbage day. A smelly garage is no better than a smelly house!
I have a special spot in the freezer for the perishable garbage and I just grab the frozen “goodies” and add them to the bag on garbage day. Simple.
I just did a little Google search on freezing garbage and see that there is a garbage can on the market that will keep your garbage frozen at all times. I think this is overkill and a waste of energy. The perishable parts of my garbage do not take up that much room in my freezer! But then again, it is just the two of us. Or more like just me lately!! Starr is really happy living at the sorority house this semester and has been spending less time at home.
This is a good thing!
Hmmm, I have never heard of that before. That’s something to think about when you are limited to where you can put your garbage. Luckily, I have big trash cans that stay outside on the side yard, so I can dump whatever and not smell up the house.
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that’s a good idea! But, I think I’d need a second freezer to freeze our garbage. We do compost so that takes care of most of the food scraps.
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I have been known to freeze my garbage, especially when we lived in FL. Even though I could put it in the trash can outside by the house, and we had twice a week pick up, with the heat, it would get nasty, and there was always a chance that something would get in it. We have twice weekly pick up here too, there is a little “garbage room” with two trash cans right outside our front doors. In the summer I froze the stuff that would get nasty…. but this winter, there really is no need to! We recycle too, right now I have two big bags to go to the recycle dumpster. I usually take it up once week, but with the snow.. it’s been more like three! But it reminds me how much we really are saving from the landfills!
I’ve never done that but I totally see that it makes sense! I have to keep my garbage outside the garage because it’s offensively stinky!!!! I used to keep it inside and that was abominable!
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Freezing my garbage sounds like a great idea! Our garbage is only collected once a week, and it’s really a hassle to have bags of garbage lying around.
Hugs and Mocha,
Stesha
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