Phalanges Mycologist
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At least in my area, we have what you'd call "wheely bins" or what we call trash/garbage cans or dumpsters that you take your trash from the house out to the larger can, then once a week you take out to the curb and it gets picked up by a garbage truck with a mechanical lifter arm. Most houses in my neighborhood have at least two cans for garbage and one for recycling, though you can pay the city to have more of either if needs be. What I described in my previous post was more for larger items like old furniture and things like that. You can haul that stuff to the local landfill any time you want, but you have to pay a fee to do it. These trash days that we have once or twice a year in my neighborhood is to save people the trip, labor, fuel, and money to have those large items hauled away because not everyone owns a pickup truck or trailer to haul things like that away easily, or might not have the strength and energy to do so due to old age or physical disabilities. It's just something our neighborhood does to make things easier for everyone to keep their homes nice since I live in a fairly nice area with a higher class of people who have a strong sense of community and who take pride in their property.
Yea how our bin collection works where I am now 1 General Waste, 1 General Recycling and 1 Garden waste, and the call to collect bulk service is great 24hrs normally for collection - my only gripe is with them is occasionally they can't make that collection date move you to first thing the next day and don't let you know via text or email.
We don't pay at our local dump though at least not the ones near me, that's for household stuff though if they catch you dumping business related waste they charge you through the arse.
The local composting they do is great as you can phone up and request some be deliverd so free compost the rest goes to the local Parks and Communal spaces etc it's oddly cleaned up some parts of the city as more people have taken up gardening and have used the recycling programs with that for tools, compost etc