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> The US is very large, you can't expect people to transport their recycling.

It is common in rural settings in the US for people to transport, themselves, both their trash and their recycling to a central drop off point. So there are lots of US residents that do exactly this periodically.

Curbside pickup is typically a system found in more urban portions of the US, but it is far from ubiquitous across the entirety of the US.

Edit: Adding this URL: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.0802698,-82.5981852,107m/dat...

This is a google satellite image of the local, central, trash drop off point in a very rural portion of southern Virginia.