We’re similarly situated. Private garbage pickup is available but we’ve opted to haul our trash and recycling ourselves. We only need to go once or twice a month.
Part of the reason we’ve chosen this route is that we do a lot of home improvement projects that sometimes generate a lot of trash that we’d need to haul off anyway, and we can throw that, along with the household garbage and recycling into the back of a pickup truck and be done with it.