I bought from Tesco two long, green plastic boxes with carbon filters in the lid, one for the brown bin and one for my own composting. They fit under the sink. I have compostable plastic bags (also from Tesco)that fit in them so I can just lift out the bag and put it in the bin. I know they say no plastic but these bags are suitable for home composting so I have been using them and no complaints yet from AES. It encourages me to keep doing it as you don't have to clean out a mucky kitchen caddy each time you empty it and the filters in the boxes help with the smell.
We are lucky enough that our brown bin can go in a shed and therefore isn't in direct sunlight but there have still been flies this summer. I haven't bothered to layer what is inside- I figured that it all gets tipped in together when it is collected so I didn't see the point!
As for our home composting, I just put in a couple of bags of kitchen waste and then a big dump of grass or cardboard. If there is too much I put the rest of the grass etc in the brown bin. It is taking a while for the bags to disintegrate but home composting is a slow business anyway unless you have a tumbler!
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