@janbb Why do I need food scrap bags? 2 reasons:
1) I have a septic tank and no garbage disposal so things like orange peels, coffee grounds, and food scraps washed from dishes, pasta bits that fall into the sink while draining, egg shells, etc. do not go down the drain. I throw them away in scrap bags or milk cartons.
2) I use a tall 13 gallon garbage bag for all other garbage. It sits in the most used part of the house: the kitchen. I try to put only clean, dry things in there and only change it when it is near full. That takes about a week – just in time for weekly garbage pick up. If I put food scraps in there and let them sit for a week it would get funky.
Burnable trash like: mail, tissues, paper towels, tissue boxes, candle wax, leftover cooking oil, etc. go in a paper shopping bag that gets tossed into the wood burning stove where I recycle it into heat at an equivalent heating oil savings of about 12 cents per pound.
I don’t compost. Why? I cannot grow a vegetable garden because the numerous critters would eat it. I work hard to keep animals away from the immediate area around my home. I do not want to invite any mice, voles. deer, opossum, raccoons, etc any closer than the tree line about 60 yards away.