Here in the SF Bay Area, cities instituted policies of large pickups several times a year. You schedule ahead of time with the sanitation crew, and you're allowed to put out perhaps ten large items of any kind - actual number depends on city. No extra cost on your garbage bill, extra pickups are free. We've put out clothes dryers, stoves, toilets, beds, full large garbage bags - you name it. Gets take away along with your regular weekly garbage. This has had a huge impact on keeping neighborhoods clean. LA could learn something from their neighbors up north.
Los Angeles does have large item pick-ups but I guess people are too lazy to make the call.