I feel similar in some ways. I live in an urban apartment building, we have a "recycle room" where I can leave anything I can produce and it magically goes away. Having said that, when I rented in a different part of the city we had a very small bin and shared it with the apartment downstairs. The bin would often fill up and I'd find myself holding onto trash because I had no room left for it and no time to drive to the dump. In that case $5 would have felt like a good deal!