It appears that the amount of FOOD garbage is related to the amount of scratch cooking one does. If someone is living on 'boughten' cookies, canned soups, frozen pizza etc, no there won't be much for the compost heap or garbage pickup.

I had a lot the other day after processing a pineapple, peeling and coring 5 apples, and removing the tougher parts of a head of escarole.