If you aren't familiar with these odor-proof, water-proof, reusable, heavy-duty, zip lock-style bags, you might want to check them out. https://loksak.com/opsak-archive2/
They are not cheap, but I am a believer.
On my recent Allagash Lake trip I took three of 12" x 20" bags with me. One bag I used for all my toiletries, which I like to keep in my small backpack in my tent. One bag I used for all my food (granted this was freeze-dried food in factory-sealed foil lined plastic bags which are themselves odor proof). And one bag I used for all he garbage I generated, including opened/used freeze dried food containers with rehydrated food residue, coffee grounds, used paper towels, etc.
I put both the food and garbage bags into a single 30 liter dry bag which I stashed at night on the ground behind a log on the edge of the woods by the lake about 100 yards from my campsite. There were LOTS of red squirrels at Allagash Lake and I had concerns that if they smelled the food or garbage through the Opsak-Loksak bags, they would chew right through the dry bag and the Opsak-Loksak. I needn't have been concerned. My dry bag was never touched . Perhaps luck. Perhaps not.
I don't think of my toiletry kit as containing a lot of scented stuff -- just toothpaste & deoderant, some advil, antacids, and odds and ends. When I opened my backpack, I got no odor. But when I opened the toiletries-dedicated Opsak-Loksak, wow, I got quite a shock. There's actually a ton of odor that is being generated by just those things -- but it was being totally captured by the Opsak-Loksak.
Same with the garbage bag. When I opened the dry bag, I got no odor. But when I opened the Loksak-Opsak that was in it, whew, I did get a lot of odor from the garbage.
I left that garbage-dedicated Loksak-Opsac in my dry bag until I got home to Maryland. While these are washable and reusable, the seals won't last forever. Since I had used the garbage bag on 2 other trips, I decided to retire it and instead of cleaning it, I threw it in the garbage bin in my garage. As it turns out, we've been having issues with our trash service, so yesterday, more than 2 weeks since getting home and tossing it, I had to retrieve that used Opsak-Loksak from the bottom of my trash bin and take it to the county transfer station. Amazingly, there was still no smell associated with that Opsak-Loksak.
I'm sold.
They are not cheap, but I am a believer.
On my recent Allagash Lake trip I took three of 12" x 20" bags with me. One bag I used for all my toiletries, which I like to keep in my small backpack in my tent. One bag I used for all my food (granted this was freeze-dried food in factory-sealed foil lined plastic bags which are themselves odor proof). And one bag I used for all he garbage I generated, including opened/used freeze dried food containers with rehydrated food residue, coffee grounds, used paper towels, etc.
I put both the food and garbage bags into a single 30 liter dry bag which I stashed at night on the ground behind a log on the edge of the woods by the lake about 100 yards from my campsite. There were LOTS of red squirrels at Allagash Lake and I had concerns that if they smelled the food or garbage through the Opsak-Loksak bags, they would chew right through the dry bag and the Opsak-Loksak. I needn't have been concerned. My dry bag was never touched . Perhaps luck. Perhaps not.
I don't think of my toiletry kit as containing a lot of scented stuff -- just toothpaste & deoderant, some advil, antacids, and odds and ends. When I opened my backpack, I got no odor. But when I opened the toiletries-dedicated Opsak-Loksak, wow, I got quite a shock. There's actually a ton of odor that is being generated by just those things -- but it was being totally captured by the Opsak-Loksak.
Same with the garbage bag. When I opened the dry bag, I got no odor. But when I opened the Loksak-Opsak that was in it, whew, I did get a lot of odor from the garbage.
I left that garbage-dedicated Loksak-Opsac in my dry bag until I got home to Maryland. While these are washable and reusable, the seals won't last forever. Since I had used the garbage bag on 2 other trips, I decided to retire it and instead of cleaning it, I threw it in the garbage bin in my garage. As it turns out, we've been having issues with our trash service, so yesterday, more than 2 weeks since getting home and tossing it, I had to retrieve that used Opsak-Loksak from the bottom of my trash bin and take it to the county transfer station. Amazingly, there was still no smell associated with that Opsak-Loksak.
I'm sold.
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