Surprised bears haven’t discovered Villages garbage day!
 

I did notice a couple of raccoons having a tea party over plastic bag left at end of drive way though.

Trash
 

No kidding. My wife and I were taking about that. We just moved here from north Dallas area, and you could never put trash out like they do here. We had coyote's bobcat's racoon's skunk's rat's possums.

North of 44 over 10 years we only had human trash pickers. South of 44 mama bear, cubs, have so much trash just on one street, they rarely have to stray far. They do food shop on many neighborhoods fruit trees.

The coyotes, bobcats don’t want dead stuff, but turkey vultures and crows find white trash bags worthy of a drive by. I haven’t seen any raccoons, but couple of armadillos wander occasionally

The raccoons have been hitting our neighborhood pretty hard lately. We’ve gone back to putting our trash out in the morning instead of the night before.

The word is out, your neighborhood puts on a fine spread for the raccoon's parties.:beer3:

Bears...NO Raccoonss...NO but the dang Ravens will spread your trash all over the neighborhood !!!!!

I’ve begun putting my trash bags in delivery boxes (i.e Amazon). Probably not good against larger wildlife, but I’m sure it will be a challenge for the birds.

Speaking of trash…..to make it easier on those folks that pick up our trash, please consolidate it as much as possible. Remember that each piece must be picked up by hand, one by one, and thrown into the back of the truck. Putting out numerous small bags that could have been consolidated into one, makes their job that much harder and time consuming.

Not our guys. If we have three bags out they grab them all with the same hand. If there's any boxes, they'll grab that with the other.

Raccoons are a pain, the dexterity those critters have with the little hands, instead of paws, on their front legs makes them efficient dumpster divers. I wish they didn’t pick up the trash so early in our neighborhood, just about everyone puts out their trash the night before.

I'm surprised there aren't rats the size of a Great Dane.

Don’t put garbage in your trash
 

Every house in the villages has a garbage disposal. With the exception of large bones, there is no reason to put garbage in your trash bag. No food, no animals!

In my neighborhood, trash days are Monday and Thursday morning. Bears have a difficult time using calendars, so it’s hard for them to show up when there is trash near the street.

Try using gray or black kitchen bags that are scented
 

It seems the animals have focused on the traditional white kitchen bags as a sign of possible food source.
Just by chance I bought grey kitchen bags that are scented, like lavender, and it seems that the color or the scent or both seems to dissuade the birds from bothering them.

We the same animals here and have not had a problem.