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Your desktop environment should have settings for when to clear the trash. You can also use autotrash to clear it automatically.
The Problem is: I don't have a DE, and therefore didn't realize programs would still try to use trashbins.
Wait... How do you not have a DE but are using something like Prism Launcher? :/
With a plain WM, sway to be exact.
A window manager is only there to - well - manage the windows of programs. A DE provides a WM (eg. KDE has Kwin) as well as tools (eg. Discover, a detault file manager, settings programs) and a few other minor things. They also usually have less configurable WMs, usually stacking (with freeform windows that can hover above each other). As I don't need any of that, just a way to move windows between screens and workspaces, a plain tiling WM is perfectly fine, and more flexible.
The only thing I need a file manager for is to get a quick overview over many images, and for that I use lf, in a terminal.