I'm not a kid trying to hid it from my parents. I live in an apartment, I'm growing outdoors, and I don't have a good place to dry openly. I'm concerned with the smell. I figure if I just open that tub once a day to change the paper, then my bathroom vent and a charcoal filter could handle the smell before any neighbors noticed anything.

Have you actually seen and compared the two methods? Evaporation into the air occurs because the air is dryer then the buds. Well... newspaper is dryer then air even! So it should evaporate even better wrapped in newspaper (assuming of course that you change it *every day*). I agree if you started missing days and stuff then my method would actually encourage mold. The "open air" method is much more low maintenance and easier. But if you change that paper every day, I would think the rubbermaid method could work fine.

Are you sure it wouldn't?

Quote Originally Posted by stinkyattic
WHAT!? No, that's not how it works. Newspaper vs air re: water absorption... fine if you are mopping up a spill... but ever hear of evaporation? How can a storm cloud hold enough water to flood a town? Please don't try to reinvent the wheel.. you know the right way to do it... trying to put it in a rubbermaid tub instead of hanging sounds like something that a kid who is trying to hide his shit from his parents would come up with....