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The small compost container for scraps where is yours located in your home ? How many days of scraps do you use it for ? It can get stinky. Seems likee it can attract fruit flies .

I won't keep it in the house, only attracts fruit flies. I only compost in Spring/summer/fall for this reason as take it directly outside to compost bin.

Our compost container sits by our back door in a cool, dark area with a tightly closed lid and is usually full after 10 to 14 days at which point the waste is removed to outside in bags and will be transferred to our composters when the snow melts.  
We don’t have any smell issues or fruit flies, it significantly reduces what we send to landfill and produces great soil remediation for our garden.

Ours is located in a cool spot as well. About once a week we as well clean ours out and will be placed in the compost bin once the snow is cleared. We don’t place any meat waste in it. Vegetable/fruit peels coffee grounds egg shells things like that. It doesn’t smell or attract flies.

We just have an old ice cream pail on our counter that we line with newspaper (usually flyers, juat not thr shiney kind). No lid. We just toss things in and take it out and dump it in the composter at the back of our yard. The yard composter is a 3- bin system made of scrounged pallets. At any given time, 1 is being actively filled, one is cooking and 1 is done or nearly-done. We fill them year-round and keep leaves from the fall to layer as we go.  
 
We fill our house bucket in 1-3 days typically. No meats or fats, but any fruit or veggies scrap, or plain grains, coffee grounds, tea bags, egg shells etc. The newspaper lining also goes into the bins. The newspaper absorbs liquid and keeps it from getting stinky and makes it easier to dump out.  
 
Flies can be an issue during tomato canning season. They come in thru the window screens if I have the bucket too close to the open window. The simple solution is to just move the bucket and take it out daily lol. And then set out fruit fly traps made of apple cider vinegar.  
 
We're a family of 7, and because so much of our waste is actually composted we set out very little actual trash. My kitchen trash can takes a week to fill up and it's maybe a 15L can? My trash smells way more than the compost because it sits longer and has meat in it.

Built a compost pit in both of my raised gardens. Old shopping cart basket rap the outside edge with lanscape clothe before it is filled in.