My apartment building has engaged in an unspoken arms race to see who can get our trash into the communal trash cans and recycling bins first. If you don’t take your bags there the day sanitation unloads them, they will be too full to put your bags in.
I live in a small building that doesn't meet the threshold for a dumpster, so we have to follow KC's stupid laws where you just throw your bags on the curb the night before. The amount of times raccoons or whatever have torn them up and strewn their contents down the street...