WTF Wednesday: What's in Your Cans?

I drive my son Frank (not his real name) to school every morning and I've noticed a particular street where the garbage cans overfloweth.  It manages to pique my interest each week on garbage day that multiple households have their cans at the bottoms of the driveway and they are always crammed beyond the brim, so much so that the lids aren't even close to closing.  This isn't something that occurs once in a while, this happens each week without fail.  Keeping in mind that I tend not to notice things that are obvious, I've probably been driving past these robust cans for a very long time without noticing.

A few things to point out.  The cans in question are those of the standard 96-gallon size.  Garbage pickup is weekly in our area and recycling is collected every other week.  This involves multiple homes on the same street which is probably why I even noticed in the first place.  I will refer to this street as Garbage Lane going forward.  Garbage Lane has what I feel are average-sized homes for our area and I would speculate that we live in a middle-middle class area.  Although most everyone thinks they are the middle-middle class.  

We used to have the standard 96-gallon garbage can and even at the height of our trash mongering we were putting out 2, maybe 3 bags of garbage each week.  Remember that we are a family of 6.  Maybe after Christmas, we would have an overflowing garbage can but that's probably the extent of our former trash productivity.  

After noticing the consistent overflowing cans on Garbage Lane, I started wondering what the heck they have in there week after week.  I wondered if maybe the people on Garbage Lane don't recycle and this is a contributing factor in their robust cans but after making a point to notice on recycling day, their recycling cans are overflowing too.  I would never do this but I ran the scenario in my mind where I stop and ask them what they have in there or just looking in the cans.  Again, I would never do that because I'm not nuts pants Magoo but I wonder nonetheless.  

The mystery of Garbage Lane and its overflowing cans will go unsolved but will no doubt continue to mystify me each time I drive by and see them.  A few thoughts to close with:  What the heck is in those cans?  How can each household consistently produce so much darn garbage?  Are they aware that they are wasteful trash mongers?  What's in your cans???

Is this your garbage can?