I live in America I just have a giant dumpster that everyone in my complex uses for anything and everything, we have no recycling programs here and the so called recycling parts you can do to recycle all go.to the landfill also.
I don't know how richer people in houses have to do with them, but they got 2 bins one for "recycling" and one for everything else. Don't know if they need to pay for them though. But yet 90% of the recycling goes to landfill anyways.
I live in America and I don't live in other countries I'm hoping that's not the same in other countries though, but that is what my experience is living in America. As always your milage may very depending on your location.