I truly don't mean to dog you, and you know I sincerely respect you, but...
Tonight, when I went took tonight's leftovers/food scraps out to the green waste/compost bin, a bunch of flies flew out when I opened the lid and the bad odor knocked me back a few feet. I do know, for a fact, that the terrible smell was not as bad as human decomp because I have smelled human decomp. (I wish that I did not know that smell. The first time I smelled that smell was my beloved deceased mother. Even though she died at 10 pm at night and her body was discovered by my brother the next morning at 4 am, we had to hire a special "crime scene decontamination" type team to remove the decomp smell from her bedroom carpet so we could sell the house.) However, if I had NOT smelled human decomp then I might not know that the various beef, chicken, pork and dairy foodstuffs rotting in there did not smell as bad. Also, my sons tend to spill milk in the back seat of my car and the sour milk smell can get pretty bad although again, not as bad as human decomp.
I do agree that my discarded junk mail, newspapers, empty cardboard boxes, empty bottles, etc. in our recycling bin do not give off any noticeable odor whatsoever. I am also aware that pizza left to dehydrate on the kitchen counter, inadvertently shoved under the coffee table or bed, or otherwise left lying around, dries out and doesn't rot. Dried-out pizza always gives me the impression that if could be eaten if only I would sprinkle it with water and stick it in the microwave, although I haven't experimented with this (although I confess to having sprinkled water on stale dinner rolls then microwaving them. Hey! That was a long time ago and I was a poor starving college student!)
Katprint
Who is pleased that her trash, compost and recycling bins will be picked up tomorrow
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