It really depends on where you live and the kinds of bins you have. I keep my bins in my garage because we get snow (used to get snow? Climate change and all that), and there are times when I can smell even just the normal household garbage inside the house. I also live in a duplex, so my entire downstairs is a single large room with a kitchenette off of it, meaning that when the garbage cans stink, they stink up the entire downstairs of the house.

I think the cans the town uses just don’t have a great seal on them, as I’ve heard other people complain about similar issues with the smell, and my parents even have a separate small can they keep outside specifically for their dog poop that they toss into the actual garbage right as they take it out to the curb so it doesn’t stink up their house.

Luckily, I’ve never had the issue of people tossing their poop into my cans, but I’ve heard tons of people complain about it. People not picking up after their dogs at all, however…that’s a different story that’s so bad around my neighborhood that multiple people have installed signs about it.

Mine is right next to our garage, and on a path to the backyard. I can smell our bin from a few feet away with the lid closed, and that’s without poop in there (though now we have cat poop, so it smells worse) and only grass/tree clippings and whatever spilled out of the bags.

It’s gross, but certainly not enough to get mad over, especially since I don’t care enough to actually wash it out (maybe I will soon though, idk). But it’s still unpleasant. If the smell wasn’t my fault though, I would be a lot more annoyed.

I used to put the garbage inside the garage in the winter (we get snow here), but the smell killed that idea.