Consider smell-free composting with worms. Can do that in the kitchen, garage, basement.

Our kitchen waste, greens, is added to the compost pile all winter as it accumulates. If you do store them outside where you are, zone 5 tells me it is normally cold, the greens will freeze and will be too cold for bacterial activity to cause that "rot", except may be during a thaw.
If you have room a vermicomposting operation is one solution, however I think the best place for kitchen waste is in the compost bin.

my compost bin is a small rubbermaid tote, maybe 20"x7"x10" and lots of worms are in it, once that is full i wait about a week and put it into a bigger bin, (4'x3'x3') to finish, so far 3 of the smaller ones have been dumped into the larger one

You are then vermicomposting. Perhaps the link below will be of some interest.

Here is a link that might be useful: About Vermicomposting