I'd say give using none at all try if it works within your location. We haven't bought any trash bags in close to 4 years.
We split our garbage into compost, recycling, paper, glass, and others.
We split our garbage into compost, recycling, paper, glass, and others.
When they raise it and turn it upside down to empty it, the wind can easily cause any loose and light stuff to blow around and not end up in the truck.
One bin probably is a small thing, but I can definitely imagine if the entire block were doing it it would start to accumulate fairly quickly.
Compost goes to a compost facility that generates methane from it and then sells the excess as fertilizer. Plastics get recycled. Reusable glass bottles get cleaned and reused, other molten down and reused. Other gets burned, filtered, and generates electricity.