what kind of scrap bucket do you have?

I am trying to find a better option. I currently use an ice cream bucket to collect the kitchen scraps throughout the day. It is not attractive though and it keeps odors even after being washed.
So what do you use?
Nancy

I've got an old enamel bucket with a lid, about a gallon size, that a client of mine had in her antique store. Easily cleaned after gunked up. Got it for a buck. It doesn't look ratty like the other combinations used the past 30 years, and holds in the stink.

Not much better but I use a tidy cat litter pail.I like the ease of the flip top.Would baking soda at the bottom help with smell? Or maybe a spray with frebreeze?

Well I have a fancy stainless steel bucket from Lee Valley. It is really too pretty to hide under the sink. I am a old man and have no sense of smell left and I recently hired a cleaning lady that comes in once a week she can smell when the cat farts next door! on her 3rd visit I asked her why she wasn't dumping the pot under the sink. SHE said that fancy Ice bucket? so I pulled it out and removed the lid. She hasn't forgot since then! Seriously it does a great job of holding odors in even tought I use a plastic bag to make it easy to empty so it is never really sealed.

I have a stainless steel one with holes in the lid and a filter over them. No smells from it. I take it out and dump it for the chickens daily. If I don't have a lot of stuff, it never even sees the bucket. Open back door, toss, and call chick chick. Gone in seconds.

sounds like metal buckets are the way to go. Now to see if I can find one for a good price.

I use an old (plastic) coffee can. But, I put baking soda in the bottom to keep the odor down.

I also use ice cream buckets. I don't worry much about the smell because we go thru enough ice cream that its easily replaced. Plus eventually they end up in the barn, to use to measure out the rations for animal feed.
I have an extra large tupperware I have also used but prefer the ice cream buckets. I've used a small metal garbage can in the past. I used to help pick up all the trays at the nursing home I worked at and would collect all the scraps on Sundays, which would feed my flock for a week, until I'd go back to work on the weekends. Saved me a fortune in feed and got my animals really big, until someone told the boss and she asked me not to. Eventually the bottom started rusting though.....of the can.
To tell the truth, I don't exactly have a container that is my only scrap bucket....I've used whatever seemed would work.....tins, plastic, paper plates, something that would ordinarily be thrown away....milk jugs cut to fit, etc....
I don't think anyone really needs to create an expense here.

I use the Blue Bunny premium ice cream buckets with the lid. I have several as they were too good to throw away. I can fill 2 or 3, stack them, and then take them out back to the compost pile. Then, I bring them in and bleach them out for the next round. I like the coffee can idea too, the red ones. But they take up more space.

Hey coyote girl - here is a pic of what we use. It's a 2 gal. plastic pail from the grocery store. This one is a little dirty right now as it is ready to go out to the compost piles. These little buckets are great to have around the farm and I think we must have about 30 of them stacked in the barn somewhere. As you can see I added an old drawer pull to the lid so it looks halfway decent to put under the sink. The plastic bail or handle swings down out of the way and the lid can either be pressed down to snap into place or, like we do, you can just set the lid on and it keeps any odors inside. I carry this little bucket out to the compost pipes about three times a week.

Just go into the store to the cake and bakery dept. and ask if they will save some for you. Most of ours were full of ready made icing and they smell soooo good when you first get them home. I use them in my workshop to hold hardware items, in the barns for animal feed measuring, in the potting shed for everything from sprouting seeds to mixing potting soil, to planting small plants to be set out later in the season, and collecting maple sap in February.