I pay $700 a year and I get recycling pickup every two weeks, on that same day they do leaf/brush/whole fucking tree pickup as well as bulky item pickup too. The recycling picks up at like 6 or 7 am and I think he calls in what's where for the rest. Also we have about 4 or 5 dump stations around the outskirts of the town in case you just need to haul stuff off, free as well. Neighbor across the street had 3 trees fall around around a year ago and blocked the street. City was out in about an hour chopping it up, removed it from the road and his yard and collected it all in the next couple of days. They ended up replacing a sewer line or something while they were there and seeded and spread hay on his yard to regrow what the trees and their trucks destroyed.