The Seattle method was to throw all of your random debris into the recycling bin at the end of your lease, because the trash cans are too small to hold anything. That way the next tenants get to deal with a recycling bin full of week-old rotting tilapia. Or maybe that was just us...

Having got offside with my bin man once , it’s completely not worth it. I put some concrete in my bin. The system he used to train me was a few weeks of lifting my bin up 4ish metres then dropping it on my front lawn. Removing broken window glass (which I was told must go in the bin, not the recycling) and household waste off my lawn each week was not worth it.

I don’t think this is the approved method for getting compliance, but it worked.

It does, but it would be a crime to do so and the garbage men actually check sometimes.