We generally have about 2 shopping bags of rubbish a week (we mostly use re-useable shopping bags but for the times we forget we save them and use those for our rubbish). We only have a small bin and that barely fills it about a 1/4 full. We generally only put the bin out every fortnight in the hope that if everyone did the same we could save petrol on the number of trucks driving around collecting.

We have a huge recycling bin that is collected fortnightly but we used to only put it out monthly till we joined an organic veggie co-op so we get a cardboard box every week and that fills the bin up.

We have a regular sized green bin and that is collected fortnightly. When we're good with weeding that is full all the time.

We also compost, use cloth nappies, avoid excessive packaging.

What irritates me is that our rates are going to go up to include the new federal landfill levy for all this rubbish being collected and I know we're not the ones with all that rubbish- we would only fill our bin every month!