You need more compost piles! I have seven, never figured on needing more than one; they just snuck over the fence and took up residence.

I think I read something about composting in plastic bags, maybe on the Cornell Composting site. Odors might be more of a problem than with a regular piles

The size of the lot and the neighbors would affect my choice of this composting.

robertz6, I already have 4 compost piles. I know what you mean about them having away of growing. Some of them are in different stages of decompostion.

I'm on a small sized lot so I may wait and leave the leaves in bags for now. I have 14 bags all toghther.

Shredding reduces mass and if you have space for a trash bag, I would think you would have space for a trash can.
At one point, I had 18 bins in my backyard (And no back yard) now I have three or six depending on how you view it.
One of the reasons I like pallet bins so much is they hold a lot of stuff to begin with.
Funny thing about compost, if you have a working pile and a period of time has past and you need to move it (moving my bins is the only turning I give em), but once you move it, the mass reduces just a little.
Another thing I like about "my" pallet bins is I can stack one bin on top of another, thus my hold capacity is increased by two. Albeit my fluffing method is a tad more difficult with a two teer system, it allows me to expand and contract my home composting efforts.
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Thanks, for the reply!

Hey Tey thats what I do with my extra chopped leaves every fall. I've done the adding fertilizer to each bag before tying them up for the winter, this fall I'm goiong to mix in UCG---see how much of a difference that makes.

No matter how many holes you poke in those bags the material in them will go to anaerobic digestion. A pile of garbage bags looks much worse than does a compost pile anyway.