Best tall kitchen (13-gal) garbage bags?

One option, whether or not you have municipal composting, is to keep the food waste container in the freezer. A frozen mass of food waste is going to stink and leak less than one kept at room temperature.

When you’re ready to take out the garbage, dump the frozen mass in the garbage bag and bring it to the dumpster.

I like the Hippo Sak bags I found on Amazon.
Made out of sugar cane not plastic-which was the draw for me. But they are thicker and more leak proof than I expected. They have satchel handles that tie up easily.

I definitely do that. I always have. :+1:t3:

Interesting… When I went to the link you posted, amazon tells me that I bought these one time before in 2021. I wonder why I didn’t buy them again? I already had my beloved green trash can. :thinking:

I don’t know which are the best, but we have found Hefty to be the least hefty.

I’m sure you weren’t Glad with that.

I have never heard of such a thing. I keep food in my freezer. Not trash. I certainly do not have room in my freezer for trash (even just food trash).

Who are you people? :slightly_smiling_face:

Food trash is food or was, until recently.

Would you be happier if we called this stuff by its more familiar name, “leftovers.”

Leftovers that I don’t plan to eat are perfectly clean. I don’t want them sitting in my warm kitchen garbage can getting smelly until I take the bag out. So I’ll put the salad or few bites of lasagna or green beans in a plastic bag (the kind the you put veggies in at the grocery store) and stick it in the freezer. Then the next day or the day after when I’m taking the kitchen bag out to the dumpster, I’ll throw in the frozen leftovers, which have now morphed into trash.

That’s part of it. The stuff in my compost pile also includes things like shrimp tails (leftover from a Chinese dinner the other day), apple peels and cores, peels and other inedible bits of other fruits and veggies and even things like chicken bones from another takeout dinner. All of this can be composted at the municipal facility designed for that purpose.

Now I’m curious. I assumed it was food waste that was leaking, as it is wont to do. We do have city composting, and so it is the compost bag that tends to leak, and our regular garbage is always dry. Is there compostable (and wet) material other than “leftovers” that is sitting in your garbage bag? Would it be feasible to freeze that as well?

Speaking of compost bags, the name brands are the worst. The obscure ones I liked to use got downgraded to a thinner material. I found a replacement that is still thicker and that works well, it only remains to see how long they stay available. We use one a week, so it takes a while to work through a box full.

Maybe I don’t police my leaky leftovers as rigorously as I suggested. I don’t know. I’m getting all self-conscious about my garbage now.

Just heedlessly fling it out the window. That was good enough 200 years ago; I’m sure it’ll be fine now. :wink:

Haha! Great idea!

Sorry, I was problem-solving again, without being asked.

No, no. That’s ok. It was a reasonable question. I guess wet things go in there besides food. I can’t think of what but clearly something does.

I’m partial to Hefty Ultra-strong, which you can get on Amazon via Subscribe-and-save. The Glad ones are good too.