Empty cat food can smell?
Updating- wow, I'm pleased with all the replies and ideas. I appreciate all the advice and will be rinsing cans. I will also try the different things such as deodorizer inserts suggested. Thank you all!
How does everyone manage the smell from empty cat food cans? Does everyone rinse out the can actually wash them before putting them in a trash bag to limit the stink? I still consider myself new to cats after 5 years. I thought my process to seal up the cans was good enough.
Once empty, I put the cans in a separate plastic bag. I use the produce bags from grocery stores or smaller trash bags. After about 4-5 cans, this bag gets knotted up and thrown in with the regular kitchen trash. My husband csnt stand the smell, even the same day when it's a new tmcan bag and new kitchen trash bag. Its not like they sit there for days.
For background, I live out in the country. Our trash cans remain 1/4 of a mile from our actual house at the main toad for pickup. It would be too far to take full cans every week to the "curb" so we take trash out as it fills. Also, since COVID 4 years ago, I have anosmia/parosmia- no sense of smell or distorted. I cannot smell ANY of the cat food can odor except when I open the big curb trash can and they've been sitting out in the sun for days. Majorly strong smells, like rotting food, sewage, landfills, super bad farts....Basically, when I can smell something, it must be really bad.