Wow - I have never had a problem with odors and we put everything in our 2-bin pullout - and it sometimes sits for days until it's full. We do lightly rinse the recyclables (per our County's request), but we don't heavily rinse them. We put food scraps (meat, bones, etc.) in the trash bin all the time! [Since we are on septic we do try to limit what we put in the GD somewhat.] We've been using ours for almost 4 years now (I can't believe it's been that long since we remodeled!) The trash pullout is one of the many "best things" about our kitchen - no more dogs getting into the trash, no more trash in the open, etc. (Our standard poodles quickly learned how to "step on the pedal" to open our trash can in our old kitchen!)

I have a covered garbage pail under the sink for garbage bin garbage, and take it out and kick it around the kitchen when it's needed (pretty much like you said). I have a trash pullout with one bin for deposits (bottles and cans) and one for the bin (jars, paper and plastic). Plant matter compostables go in reused produce bags to be taken down to the city green bin. We don't have garbage composting. I don't refrigerate my house (A/C if on at all is set very high), and don't even like putting meat waste and really yucky things in the city mixed garbage bin, which gets a lot of afternoon sun. Phew! Though I'd do it if it were going for composting. That would be my big concern in the kitchen though: The bins are outside and downstairs and the veg waste is bad enough at times if no one wants to carry it down. What I'd want for it is well covered, probably with one of those charcoal filters or something, if it couldn't be carried right out immediately. I keep thinking of maggots. It just takes a single fly... I actually think if you have nothing else that you want to put under the sink, if you don't have plumbing in the way (inspector forced it under mine), you might fit all four bins but they might be small. And you certainly could do garbage and city compost with covers, and the rest next to it. I have recycling bins in every room so that it doesn't all accumulate in the kitchen. Considering how your city is diverting so much from waste water processing into high heat compost, I wonder if the house of the future will have a garbage room. Maybe it'll even have a built in composter appliance, so that all the city would pick up would be recycling (plastics, glass, metal) and home processed compost for a final run through to purify it in the city plant. Hm... Goopy plastic wrappers. That future needs a compostable wrapper that works as well as ordinary plastic for preserving freshness so as not to waste water. They've made great strides with cornstarch. My experience? I have had my pail (Rubbermaid) since I moved into off campus housing decades ago. It's a great pail which holds a week's garbage, because there's just so little garbage nowadays. There would be a lot less without paper napkins and towels. The other bins are standard size and could be twice as big. If your pick-up bins are right out the door, it doesn't matter, but if you don't like emptying them twice a day, or whatever, go for the biggest bins you can fit, especially for stuff that doesn't stink.

Check to be sure the glides aren't "off". Take out the bins and then remove the drawer box. Now, put the drawer box back on the glides and be sure you hear the "click" of the drawer box locking in place on both glides. If that doesn't help, let us know....

I have this one in the 27-gallon size, which is <12" wide: https://www.rev-a-shelf.com/showProduct.aspx?SEName=double-bottom-mount-aluminum-waste-containers&ProductID=262 It's installed in a cabinet with a 13" wide rough opening and a 5"-tall drawer above it, with an inset door/drawer. I'm very happy with the functionality - the soft close is great.