During the winter I have our trash pickup cut to once every two weeks. We share a can with our neighbors who are also a childless couple so there isn't much trash between the 4 of us. During the winter they head to Florida so the trash never fills up.
In CA, I even had a trash compactor, but would often times have too much trash for the "issued can" and we were issued the largest can. There's so much waste in CA. Items are packaged to meet this standard and that standard. The issued recycle bin was the same size as the issued trash can.