Do you pay extra for recycling?

I wish! We have no recycling at all - none, zip, zilch - unless you could metal scrap which seems to be so popular around here that thieves pull the copper wire from houses if they're able. The most we can recycle is food waste because I started a compost bin.

To answer your question, yes I'd pay $36 extra a year to recycle. In other communities where I've lived, I've found that such charges get quickly reduced or eliminated. The county ends up saving so much in landfill fees when the community recycles, they make it mandatory and actually charge people extra if they DON'T recycle.

that seems like an incentive to give to people to just throw it in the trash!  Hopefully they will realize that.

I would pay extra to recycle, I think, if push came to shove and I had to cut back (which MANY people are having to do) then I would.  

Are there not recycle "banks" in town that you can put your plastics in?  I seem to remember at bigger shops like walmart/ grocery chains would have those setting out.  

Our rubbish tax is just in the council bill, I am not sure how much of it goes to that.  Council tax is about £140 a month.... ugh

Will they be picking up your recyclables at the curb or will you still have to bring them to the center?   Either way, I would probably still pay because I do try to think of doing things that will make the world better for my own girls.  We pay a fee per month and I know it comes to much more than $36 per year, but they do take it from the curb.

We don't have mandatory recyling. We also don't have curbside pickup for any refuse. We bring all trash to the dump, and we separate recycling and put that in the appropriate areas at the dump ourselves. We recycle to allow the town to make money and in turn help to keep our taxes low. I wouldn't pay for recycling though.

Our recycling cost is free, a trash can is also given to households for free.

I pay $32 every 3 months for trash/recycling. 

If I didn't recycle the cost would be the same.