I recycle newspaper, magazines and cardboard. I do this because it saves me money.
The fees for home trash pick-up are somewhere north of $22/m (I haven’t checked in a while) with no re-cycling requirements. If I bring my trash to the transfer station I am charged $1 per 30 gal bag. Newspapers, magazines and cardboard take up too much room in bags, but can be disposed of there for no charge. I live alone and so generate less than a bag a week. Since I have receptacles (cans) a place to keep them (old coal house) and the Xfer station is not very far out of my way, this works well for me. I just keep my receipts to satisfy the county regs.
right because they are charging you fees for the pretend recycling that they say that they are doing.