Nope, restaurants means restaurants. Apologies for not being clear. The food service places were throwing out lots of compostable food in their regular waste

Nope, restaurants means restaurants. Apologies for not being clear. The food service places were throwing out lots of compostable food in their regular waste so the city made composting mandatory for all customers of Seattle Public Utilities, residents and restaurants alike. If the compost container kept in the house has a lid with a charcoal filter on it, there's very little to no smell. The small container gets emptied into the big container once every couple of days. As for the bags, I have to buy trash bags, so I buy mostly trash bags and some compost bags. Everybody sells them and they're in a bazillion different sizes (moreso than regular trash bags). I actually buy the tall ones to serve as liners for my compost bin that sits outside--so I don't have to hose it out--and then smaller ones to go in the compost container inside. That way everything stays clean with little fuss.