The other thing thats a bit annoying is our recycling program is one guy in a truck. Truck pulls up then it lifts and dumps.
So if you have one thing causing the lid on the bin to be open even just a little bit it throws off the lift system and stuff spills everywhere.
So they won't pick it up and will leave a warning sticker on your bin shaming your ass
Since my wife buys nearly everything off Amazon I'm driving to the recycle center drop off every other weekend with an abundance of Amazon boxes since they won't all fit in my bin with the lid closed.
In Chicago, they'd take anything. You could have someone sideswipe the front bumper off your car, just throw it in your recycle bin and they'd take it. Probably because they're just dumping it all in some low income neighborhood anyway. So I racked up a few warning stickers for the first couple weeks I was out here.