Selling these resources and your bin taxes [0] are what helps the municipal garbage service covering their costs. If you pay another service to take away the mo

Selling these resources and your bin taxes [0] are what helps the municipal garbage service covering their costs. If you pay another service to take away the more valuable parts of the trash, you would sort of pay twice, as your municipal provider would not be able to make money on these resources and needed to cover their costs in a different way. [0] At least here in Germany one can not opt out of this which is a good thing in my opinion. Otherwise some people undoubtely would opt out which would leave us with either unhandled trash or the public having to pay for their trash instead.