Garbage
Do you ever find yourself wondering what's in other people's garbage?

I've never had that desire, until today. And not just to see what my neighbor's lives are like. But more to find out what they could possibly be consuming to generate so much garbage.

I forgot to take out my garbage last week, so I made a point of taking it out today. I picked up the not quite full bag from the kitchen and tossed it in the garbage can. That not-full bag is the only garbage I have from the past two weeks. I then took the garbage and recycling out to the curb and looked around. Some of my neighbors have huge bags of stuff sitting on top of their recycling bins. Bags much bigger than my bag, bigger than my garbage and recycling combined. That combined with their full recycling bin means they're recycling 2-3 times as much as I'm recycling/throwing out. And I know that only a small percentage of what's consumed can be recycled. So I find myself wondering, just what do people consume that causes so much garbage? I'm only a single guy and most of my neighbors have families, but the proportions still seem way off.

The irony is that I actually think I don't do enough to reduce how much garbage I generate.