My neighbor puts out his recycling & trash (blue, green, gray) every week. I put mine out once a month (blue always, sometimes green, never gray).
Blue is typical stuff like paper, glass, plastic, cardboard, etc. Green is landscaping, where I only put out weeds with seeds. Gray is trash, where I simply don't have anything to put out.
To be more descriptive, I have a bucket in the kitchen for foodstuffs, where NOTHING goes down the drain except water and bits that get past the drain stop (or whatever you call that thing) which goes to compost.
I shred my mail which also goes to compost, unless it's "shiny" stuff, or plastic stuff, in which case it goes into the blue recycling bucket.
A lot of people don't compost bones and meats but what we do is put them in a dish outside where the wild animals get it within hours, so it ends up as compost spread by those animals (fox, coyote, corvids, etc.). I even put the mousetraps mice into that same dish & it always disappears in hours (I do not and simply will not use poison bait or inhumane sticky traps!).
I compost all my landscaping, which is appreciable, so I have a hillock about thirty feet square, where every year I throw more on top and water it and toss and turn it with a pitchfork, etc., which creates nice compost in a few years (it's always there so there's always old done & new compost).
I burn logs in the fireplace and branches sliced up with the chop saw for the pizza oven, so there's nothing left of an entire tree when I'm done.
The only things that go into the green bucket are poison oak and bay detritus (as it carries the sudden oak death disease) and weed seeds.
What's left to put in the (always empty) gray trash bin (but styrofoam)?