New Orleans is generally pretty unenlightened on environmental issues, and there's plenty of littering, but we do have curbside recycling, and also a serious annual effort to recycle all Christmas trees for wetlands reclamation.

I have a large yard with four huge trees ~ one evergreen (pine) and three decidiuous (pecans) ~ and produce lots and lots of compost. No city-wide or public composting of any kind around here, though.