Every year we tip the trash and recycling collectors. This year was the Friday before Christmas. After the recyclables were collected on the Saturday after Christmas, the street was littered with recycling material. We picked ours up and then saw the glass in the street from the bottles they dropped. This had to be swept up before cars ran over it all. As we looked up and down the street, we saw the whole block was littered and as we turned the corner, that street was the same. So we will save some money as next year by foregoing the tipping.