I think village dwellers often have to be more resourceful than city dwellers. And certainly, some Kyrgyz city dwellers have picked up the more wasteful aspects of materialist Western culture. In the villages which I've visited, however, waste is sacrilege. Nothing is wasted. If an animal is killed, every part of it is either eaten or used in some other way. While a horse lives, it is used for work (including the work of tourism - allowing ignorant but grateful foreigners to go for horse rides). Even its 'waste matter' is not wasted: dry dung, it turns out, burns nicely.
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