@Sierra29 It's pretty surprising and depressing to me that there still seem to be so many people who just don't seem to either be aware of give a hoot about recycling and what the plastic problem is doing to the planet. They fill bags full of garbage indiscriminately. They actually make me angry.
Between what I recycled, and the compost bin in my backyard, I never produced more than one small shopping bag (not a big garbage bag) full of garbage a week, even when I was raising 3 kids. My neighbor, a single guy, somehow managed to fill 2 large garbage cans per week, and sometimes he'd even have an extra bag out there.