Here we have:
1 grey garbage can (the size is the price you pay)
1 green for garden / compost
1 blue ( paper - clean paper only)
1 green bag (plastic/tetra packs - cans)
Glass is collected at the supermarket. They took away the paper, magazines + clothes.
It's not allowed to leave the compost in your garden, bigger trash (gates and so on you should make small packages of 1m2 and bundled and it costs extra to let them pick up.there's a limit plus you need a pass to take the garbage not collected to the dump station.

Can't you leave the palm trees and so on in the garden and start your own green dump station?

I agree with you it's illegal to let customers pay twice. I wonder if those new ones cam't take care of that fight to get rid of the old one. It is what the electricity and health insurances do but if it comes to trash we only have one option. It's the one the city provides or so.