How often do you take out a full bag of garbage?

[Anonymous]

I am downright baffled by the amount of garbage my neighbors produce.

My office overlooks their side yard where they keep their trash cans in a wooden structure that lifts on a hinge. It bangs loudly when opened, which is how I know they are out there. And they bring out at least three bags of garbage a day. They don’t have babies or adults in diapers (of course, I’m assuming the last part) or anything else that I can think of that would produce that much trash.

What could they be throwing out? I feel like they are the reverse of the Coneheads or something.

[Anonymous]

Maybe three times a week

[Anonymous]

Printing a lot? Shipping materials?

I make a lot of trash partly because I don’t try hard at all to compress it.

[Anonymous]

Daily at least.

[Anonymous]

Two large trash bags a week for a family of 4 and pets.
BUT
we compost everything we can, which reduces our trash by half, and we also recycle anything that can be recycled.

I assume your neighbors are not sorting and not composting. Perhaps they have pets that generate a lot of trash?

[Anonymous]

3x a week. We have 3 kids and we eat and cook 3 meals a day. I don’t think we’re overly trashy people, but there’s a lot. We compost and have a full recycling bin too.

[Anonymous]

Meth labs produce a lot of waste.

[Anonymous]

Maybe they get meal kits? Those produce a lot of trash.

[Anonymous]

Few times a week, depends. If I'm doing a house clean out or DIY something a lot more.

[Anonymous]

Monthly. But I live alone and compost weekly.

[Anonymous]

Offer your services as a trash professional.

[Anonymous]

I don't understand. Where are you keeping your trash if you don't take it out every night? Even if we have a very small bag of trash, we take it to the outside bin every night. We don't want bugs or worse in the house.

[Anonymous]

At least daily but I have cats (so cat poop) and it gets stinky fast.

[Anonymous]

Incontinent pet or clandestine smoker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand. Where are you keeping your trash if you don't take it out every night? Even if we have a very small bag of trash, we take it to the outside bin every night. We don't want bugs or worse in the house.

People have lids on their trash cans?