> There's two people in my household and we both are very conscience of being wasteful > if we produce more than 2.5 garbage bags of waste in a 2-week period,

> There's two people in my household and we both are very conscience of being wasteful > if we produce more than 2.5 garbage bags of waste in a 2-week period, we have to hold on to it for another garbage pickup It's pretty easy to have much less than 2.5 garbage bags of waste every 2-week. You should read just a tiny bit of zero waste please, it may help you immensely. You may believe that recycling isn't working, that's fine, but there's plenty of simple easy ways to reduce waste and have less than 2.5 garbage bags of waste every 2 weeks. The 4 R rules is simple: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. You still got 3 R to works on.