We don't make much trash, so we share a dumpster with our in-law's. Trash goes out once a week, MAYBE twice if I have done extra cleaning or something. If we make more than 2 bags per week we'd have to pay for our own trash service.
Food/rott-able scraps go to either the birds, dogs, or the compost.
I recycle metal and aluminum cans.
I burn cardboard and compost the ashes.
Not much goes into the city piciup trash: some glass since they don't offer recycling program for it, plastic coke bottles that they don't have a recycle program for, some plastic bags that I don't need (I reuse a lot of them though) and a few plastic food containers that aren't suitable for reuse. The only thing stinky in the trash are styrofoam/paper/plastic meat packages. SO I remove all the meat from the wrappers at once, put it in plastic or glass in the fridge/freezer, and take out the trash all at once on the night before pick-up!