When cities started charging everyone to take anything into their landfill, the illegal dumping really increased. Corsicana, TX, had one Saturday a year on which you could dump free, and there would be pickups and trailers lined up down the side of the road for a half mile all morning. And in the west end of the county, people could go less than a quarter mile past our house and be out of sight of any homes and also where they could see any vehicles coming, so it always a huge garbage mess there. But there was an individual who picked up our garbage once a week for $12 a month in 2002 before we moved back to town.
Now in town, we have Waste Management picking up our garbage once a week for $9.77 a month on the water bill. I know some people, in some parts of the country, may have complaints about Waste Management, but not here. You can put your garbage out in cans and they'll empty them, you can use plastic bags (as we do), you can tie brush in 4' bundles, you can set appliances or furniture out there on the regular pickup day, etc. If two men can pick it up and put in the truck, they take it. And with proof of residence (drivers license and water bill), we can haul stuff to the landfill ourselves, free, if we wish. I've taken a pickup load of brush a few times when I pruned trees.
They did have some little green (18 gallon) boxes for recycling if you wanted to request one, but not too many people used them. So in February of this year, they delivered a nice 35 gallon recycling cart to every address in the city. Of course, it's still up to the individual as to whether you use it. It's picked up on the same day as the garbage; just by a different truck. And they show up every Monday, rain or shine, holiday or not, even on Christmas when it's on a Monday.
We definitely do use the recycling because they've now made it so easy, and we do not have to separate the stuff; just put it all in that cart. Each cart came with a 2 sided single sheet of instructions. One side tells about the program, pickup days, etc. while the top half of the other side lists items that can be recycled, and the bottom half lists items that must not be recycled. So we can just put "mixed residential paper", including junk mail, cans, glass, and plastic all in the same cart. Of course they go into more detail and provide a phone number if you have any questions.
I don't know how they could do anymore than that.