To make a non-stinky compost pile all you need to do is layer materials following this equation: 2/3rds brown vegetation to 1/3 green.
The green would be all your weekly table scraps, coffee grounds, and vegetable peelings (no meat or fat, please!). Just dump them into a gallon bucket. When full, start your layering. For the brown, natural hard wood mulch and shredded paper or torn cardboard boxes all work well. You should spread 2x as much of the brown as you add of the green. Eyeballing it is fine.
My husband drilled holes in the sides and bottom of an extra large plastic garbage pail to give greater air circulation and drainage for rain. I just keep layering week by week until it reaches the top. It takes about 10-12 months to compost down. Or you can just stack cement blocks in an open ended square or rectangle and layer and use center for the pile.
If you don’t have many food scraps, fresh green grass clippings also work for the green (not treated with herbicides!)
The trash can composts down in about 10-12 months. My garden loves the stuff!
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Kind of hard to compost in an apartment.