Garbage trucks

Nobody likes the noise of garbage trucks, especially if one's house is near the start of the run. Early morning noise disturbs your daily routine once each week, perhaps twice on the same day if there is a double run of garbage and recycling/green waste. Does anyone stop to think that if we all made less rubbish, then the garbage collections could be less frequent, or shorter runs, so you would get woken less often? How many of our actions have consequences which we fail to account for?