Brilliant strategy. Bet you have very little that goes in the trash can. You are a true conservative!
I have very little garbage, you’re correct. Just a little plastic wrapping and what not. Glass too as our municipality doesn’t recycle that either. But very little paper stuff gets thrown away at our house.
Hubby scavenges the cardboard drink holder thingies from the office break room and I use those as free ‘peat pots’ to start my squash and other stuff that resents being transplanted. I use cardboard egg cartons for the same thing. Even most plastic does a turn or two through my garden project before it gets thrown away. Sour cream containers and similar stuff gets a hole poked in the bottom and used as containers for seedlings.
What can’t be used easily gets tossed into the compost.
Waste not, want not.