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So, how do you rid yourself of household garbage, and all that other "stuff", that needs gone?
City pickup, burn out back other?

Haul it to a local dump/recycling center.

Garbage man comes around on Wed. It costs 2 bucks a bag. (you buy little stickers for the bag)

I go through 3 bags a month - give or take.

I find most things that seem worthless to me, can be valuable to others. We have a few 'curb hawks' here that will scoop up most anything. They clean, fix, repurpose...whatever...I usually place it in a way that they have to take it all or nothing. Whatever doesn't go get sent to the dump.

We pay (non-optional) for once-a-week pickup of garbage (one 32-gallon can) and recycling (2 boxes supplied by company). Anything beyond that requires extra stickers than can be purchased at city hall.

Commercial seven yard dumpster.

$47/month.

I've got a like-new, commercial grade several-hundred-pound elliptical exercise machine that is going on the curb this week, if I can lug it there.

Problem is........I live at the end of a cul-de-sac street.

A couple years ago I had 3 rolls of WELL used woven wire to get rid of. I just put them out by the road with a FREE sign on them. 30 min later there was a woman sitting on one while hubby went home for the pickup.

Outside of tin cans, newspapers and actual refuse, we throw very little away. Craig List free ads are your friend. Junk wood, metal debris (put a rotted out woods stove and two broken down push mowers) goes to curb and on Craig's list. Heck, I did that one time and went out to mow the front yard and everything was picked up before I even finished mowing. There's a lot of scrappers out there that watch those Craig's List ads every day. I put a pile of pine firewood out there from a tree we took down and it was gone in 20 minutes.

we have two big trash cans, one dedicated to recycle, one for normal stuff, city pickup once a week. Every so often city has a special big up for stuff that won't fit in containers.
having said that arizona is a border state with mexico, i.e. plenty of new arrivals around that cruise looking for stuff set at the curbside. Usually it goes away fairly quickly such as furniture, bicycles, appliances etc.
I have seen trucks headed south near the international line piled high to the cab with junk. They also tend to loot the containers at shopping centers where you can donate stuff such as clothing and so on.

Send it to the White House!!

The only thing that we can recycle here is aluminum, newspaper, and cardboard. The paper all goes to an insulation company. There's no outlet for glass, etc. so it all just goes to the landfill.
We're out in the country. We pay $26/mo for a 95 gal dumpster and 1/wk pickup. It would be cheaper to haul it to the dump but then I'd have to store it all until I had a load. It's worth the price for the convenience.

A few years ago the insulation company got in a truckload of baled cardboard from Boise. When they were breaking the bales to go into a shredder, they found a body inside of one. It was a bum who'd crawled into a baler to sleep.