Harlandale Independent School District Superintendent Rey Madrigal addresses the crowd during a ribbon cutting ceremony held for Bexar County's first school-based health center at Collier Elementary School, ...
Charcoal is known to effectively absorb and trap odors, but you will want to control the potential mess it can make. Place charcoal in a container with several holes poked in it, and leave it in an area that smells bad. Throw the entire assembly away when the scent is gone.
As they feed, anaerobic bacteria produce metabolites that have characteristically noxious smells. One set of smells is related to sulfur compounds. This is the source of that characteristically ârotten eggâ smell associated with bad breath secondary to post-nasal drip. Another set of smells is associated with polyamines that produce the classic putrescent odor of decay.