You might check to see if your community has a program like this: You buy these 30 gallon special garbage bags (they are blue here) for something like $5 each, and they'll pick them up for free.
does your community allow you to put "FREE" items on your curb? i do this all the time, just good usable stuff, and it rarely sits for more than 1 day.
Hawaii has figured out that it's cheaper to have free trash pickup (and free bulk/appliance pickup) than it is to track down all the stuff people would throw away in the roadside brush. Even so we still have jerks who can't be bothered to put their bulky stuff at the curb yet find a way to haul it to the most remote (beautiful) areas to trash it.
if your community recycles and people actually do so, it makes a huge difference in the volume.
As Oahu's landfill approaches its legislated capacity and the state contemplates shipping trash containers to the Mainland, recycling has come back into vogue. The last few years have been a huge improvement.
Most beverage containers have a nickel surcharge that can be redeemed by recycling, and that's started a whole entreprenerial economy. The HPOWER plant burns a growing minority of the trash for electricity and is adding a couple new incinerators. Our neighborhood has a pilot recycle program with alternating weeks of metal/plastic recycling and green waste mulching. Of course now we have four color-coded cans, but trash pickup is down to once a week. That'll probably go island-wide next year.
We've been composting for a couple years but last November we moved our worms to a "Can O' Worms" container of four stacked trays, each about 24" diameter and 4" deep-- volume of roughly a cubic foot. They've ramped up their consumption (and reproduction) nicely so we put out less than a 13-gal bag a week. Hardly any food waste leaves our lot.
The worms have an amazing capacity. In just under four months we've loaded that vermiposter with over 10 dozen banana peels, a couple dozen papaya rinds, hundreds of teabags and coffee filters, dozens of mango & starfruit rinds, apple cores, and probably another half-dozen cubic feet of assorted fruit & veggie waste. Yet the container is less than half full and we siphon off nearly a half-gallon of yummy leachate every week for the plants. Our regular compost volume is way down so we've moved that from a huge three-bay pit to a much smaller bin.
Our bunny is very productive too-- a half-cup a day, which turns out to be great orchid fertilizer.
Our old compost pit produced a bonus side effect this year-- a half-dozen baby papaya trees that I have to transplant closer to our kitchen for easier access.
