I’ve never recycled. I guess that’s bad.
Threw the garbageman a 10 spot every now and then at my last house and I was good to go.
I was a garbage man for 5 years 20+ years ago. Had a few customers on my routes that got “premier” service. Mrs. Pelican and Bill and Nell especially. Mrs. Pelican owned almost an entire block in PDX as rentals. Whenever a tenant would move out there’d be a large pile of garbage. “Not a problem Mrs. Pelican, I’ll clean that up for you”.
I have always thrown all the trash into the dumpster. Did not matter if it said Recycle only as only one garbage truck showed up and dumped both dumpsters trash/recycle items into the back of the truck.