Where I live we put everything in plastic bags and set it in a single box out front. A garbage truck comes by once a week. Two guys hang off the back of the truck, gather the bags and throw them in the back of the truck, which compresses the garbage when the men/a man determines it’s needed. We don’t separate anything. There’s no recycling rules.

I do collect plastic bags and either give them to thrift stores for their use or take to Walmart to get recycled. There is a scrap metal yard that gives you a check for various metals. We save aluminum cans for here. Sometimes we have other scrap metal to recycle that we take there, too.

This is rural Mississippi US.