How to make food waste caddies more sanitary?

[georgarina]

I've got a caddy from the council to recycle food waste, but it's really horrible :( smells bad, steams up and the inside gets wet with rotting juice, and I have to keep it on the kitchen surface so toddler DCs can't get to it.

(I can't keep it outside because we live in a building with daily rubbish collection so it will be collected daily if left outside.)

Is there any way to make it more sanitary/inoffensive?

I think the idea is that the period pad is stuck down.on to the bottom.of the caddy. The bag is put on top and its the bag and its contents. that gets composted. The pad stays in there but at least you don't have juices sloshing about. Obviously if you're going to wash the caddy then you will need to swap the pad. It's just something I saw, don't do it myself.

Ah, that makes more sense faw2009!

I put an egg carton in the bottom of my bag to reinforce and soak up any bin juice. A dozen box opened out is about the same size as a small caddy.

Ours (I mean the kitchen caddy, not the bigger one for collection) isn’t insanitary. We always use the biodegradable bags, and wash it after transferring a full one. The bottom does get a bit wet, but it doesn’t smell.

I put half an egg box in the bottom of the bag, keeps it open and soaks up the ‘juice’. It helps to keep the bag from splitting on the way to the council bin as well. In the summer I keep in the fridge to stop the fruit flies.

We have two, one thats on the side of the fridge that we put 'non smelly' things like veg peelings etc and also line with bread crusts (as no one eats them)

We also have a tupperware box in the freezer we put plate scrapings, bones, bits of meat in

Thanks everyone, some really helpful advice here.
(To answer some q's, I don't put hot or overly wet food inside, it gets that way while it's in there. Hence the ick factor!)