“My city recently gave us big rolling trash and recycling bins.”
We have a gray 55gal bin for general garbage collected weekly. City passed out green 55gal bins years ago to replace the small red recycle tubs (which we got to keep)...with collection every two weeks. We were given the option of returning the green rollouts. I’m sure that window has passed. I grew to appreciate the green bin as it allows us to get rid of a lot of garbage. With the recycles going in the green bin, space in the gray bin is now freed up to get rid regular garbage PLUS lots of “non-standard/unapproved” garbage... rocks, dirt, stumps, paint cans, lumber, etc. Garbage guys and gals won’t see this stuff unless they’re forced to use the manual dumper on a replacement garbage truck as opposed to the big arm that reaches over and lifts the bin up to dump into the top-loader trucks. I’ve been safe so far...knock on wood. Seriously, I’ve gotten rid of several cubic yards of dirt.
When I bought my house it had a garbage compactor in it... I loved it... 1 bag (usually not even full) a week to deal with.... Wife decided she didn’t like it and took it out... now I have to deal with bags that overflow 64 gallon bin most weeks. I know it will be compacted in the truck and back at the dump... but garbage volume is really miniscule once its compacted. We are a house of 4 and compacted, a typical week, talking no more than a few cubic feet of waste.
Yea. My kids all moved out so we usually have plenty of extra space in our trash bin for some of that “special” stuff too