How Long Does It Take for Food Scraps to Turn Into Compost?

In LA now, we're supposed to do this. And it means putting like food scraps in your green bin? Correct. If you contact LA Sanitation, you can go pick up a free pail from them and they'll give it to you. But isn't the little pail going to smell unless you empty it every day? Excellent point, Zach. They recommend that you put a plastic bag in there, but you don't throw out the plastic bag into the green bin. You could also use biodegradable plastic bags if you have one; otherwise, yeah, you could put a paper bag in there.