At least two bags a day.

Anonymous wrote: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.

Are they bringing three bags (do you see them?) or are they just putting something in there three times a day? Maybe every time they get a package they put the box in there.

We have two adults, two kids (elementary), and two dogs. I'd say we make make maybe one bag of trash a day, max. Recycling could be another bag, so possibly two but I can't think of a time that we've ever taken out two bags a day every day for a week.

However, I only empty the trash cans other than the kitchen once a week (unless something happens and they need to be emptied sooner). Maybe they don't recycle so what you think is trash is really a mix of the two? But why they wouldn't take all the bags out one time a day is baffling.

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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?

Yes, kitchen trash can has a lid. But I just never heard of people not taking kitchen/food trash out every night. I will say that I have a friend whose house always has a slight rotten food smell to it, and it is occurring to me that they don't take their trash out regularly. I would never not be friends with her because of it, but I always think something is rotting. A glass of wine and you forget all about it.

What food are you putting in the trash can in your kitchen? People who compost and don't eat a lot of meat with bones, do not have a problem with food in the trash.The only food item that ever hits our trash can is chicken bones when I roast a whole chicken, and after I make bone broth from the bones. That goes out to the outside trash immediately.

I put it in the freezer till trash day and then toss is before taking the trash out.

Never. This is a job for my staff.

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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?

Yes, kitchen trash can has a lid. But I just never heard of people not taking kitchen/food trash out every night. I will say that I have a friend whose house always has a slight rotten food smell to it, and it is occurring to me that they don't take their trash out regularly. I would never not be friends with her because of it, but I always think something is rotting. A glass of wine and you forget all about it.

I've never met someone who takes their trash out every night. Even my germophobe parents don't do that. Trash cans have lids that close well.

Same. My germaphobe mother didn’t do that. I’ll take the trash out if it has raw fish or something that will get stinky quickly, but the usual coffee grounds, veggie trimmings and used paper towels can wait a day or two (& fwiw, I never leave dishes in the sink overnight and clean the kitchen counters after dinner and we do not have bugs).

Family of 3 and it probably goes out every 3 days or so. We don't put much food waste in it though--my spouse is a pretty good meal planner so very little gets thrown out, and we also compost.

Meat packaging all gets thrown out when we get back from the grocery store (and then that trash will go out immediately). We separate the meat into ziplocs or tupperware. So at most our dinner will produce one ziploc bag, which we can just seal and toss. Anything fish has touched is the one thing that needs to go out immediately, but some weeks we don't eat any fish.

Maybe your neighbors are having a clear-out? I have a full bag of trash every 2-3 days, but if I’m clearing out expired food or a junk drawer, it’s several times a day.

I prefer to take out the trash daily to keep it from stinking but if we don't it takes about 4 days to produce one full bag of trash and one full bag of recycling (3 people and one cat). We don't compost but we are very careful and not wasteful with food -- we go out of our way to avoid food waste and to eat almost everything we buy. We also really limit our paper products -- I use a paper towel or napkin maybe twice a week and we never use disposable plates or containers if we can help it. Like to the degree where I usually have a couple tupperware in my purse and we will put restaurant leftovers in there instead of using their to-go boxes just so we don't use something disposable.

I think this "zero waste" goal permeates all of our activities and we just have the habit of not buying things we don't need or might have to toss later and using everything we have down to the last drop before buying new. Even things we don't like that much -- if I buy shampoo and I don't like it that much I will still use it all up before trying a different shampoo. I think most people will just get new shampoo and recycle the container right away.

Family of 4 including 2 teens, plus pets, and take out 3 small bags a week. We cook from scratch and compost. Recycling is mostly a scam but we compost a lot of cardboard and do recycle metal and certain plastics. Rarely eat takeout and living on a budget so that limits the online shopping.

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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?

Yes, kitchen trash can has a lid. But I just never heard of people not taking kitchen/food trash out every night. I will say that I have a friend whose house always has a slight rotten food smell to it, and it is occurring to me that they don't take their trash out regularly. I would never not be friends with her because of it, but I always think something is rotting. A glass of wine and you forget all about it.

What food are you putting in the trash can in your kitchen? People who compost and don't eat a lot of meat with bones, do not have a problem with food in the trash.The only food item that ever hits our trash can is chicken bones when I roast a whole chicken, and after I make bone broth from the bones. That goes out to the outside trash immediately.

We are a family of five that generates one bag, (13 gallon) of trash each week. That's it. I have no idea what these people with full trash cans are doing.

Do they order out alot?

I probably take trash down once a week, but I live alone and recycle much of what I discard.

That seems like a lot.

We probably have 3 bags of trash per week and recycling maybe once per week. But we are only two people, and don't create a lot of trash, don't cook a ton at home, etc.

Anonymous wrote:Cut up body parts need to be taken out every day.

What about cut up bears? Apparently that was only discarded after it’d been a few days