In Brisbane, and in some parts of Queensland, recycling is common - it thus costs less to get landfill facilities, as they are expensive. Australia apparently has something like a 96% recycling rate for aluminium drink cans.

Here, we have 2 bins - the yellow top is the recycling one - paper & some plastics. There used to be a separate recycling truck once a fortnight, but now have every alternate run a normal garbage truck and a dual garbage/recycling truck. Shortly there will be a green waste pickup, with a bag of compost left in exchange. There is also a yearly rubbish pickup from the footpath - and the scavengers do well at that time.

In Toowoomba, they have a bin with a divider for 2 compartments, and the truck supposedly is able to keep it separate.

In most of Australia it would not be possible for health reasons (temperature) to have normal garbage collected any less frequently than weekly.