I'm curious... What's the best change you made that reduced your garbage?

Re the cat litter problem. We started using animal bedding/wood shavings for the litter. Requires changing it 2x a week instead of the clay's 1x a week, but it's lighter and cheaper, so easier for us old farts to deal with. The cats generate about 1 large trashcan full of soiled shavings each fall/winter. This is dumped, spread out, covered with leaves or soiled straw (from the winter veggie garden beds) and seeded with grass seed or "meadow flower mix. "Does NOT make pristine lawns, but it feeds the soil/trees and deals with a huge problem in a decent way. We have.9 acre here, not a huge lot, but not tiny either. The house/lawn/veggie garden/driveway are ringed with trees.

We do NOT mow the grass, it's a low/no mow blend and there to anchor the soil not be an English estate....