Secret Revenue-Producing Scheme for Towns?

How difficult is it for refuse collectors to put trash barrels and recycling bins neatly back on the side of the road when they are emptied? Instead, they either leave the containers in the middle of the street to be hit by vehicles or toss them into the middle of the yard so you have to clamber over snow piles to retrieve them. And, when these containers become so damaged as to be completely unusable, the collectors will not pick them up and take them away -- even if you post a sign on them. Every year we trudge to Town Hall to pick up a new recycling bin -- only to have it destroyed the first week it's in use. Do the towns have a clause in their hauling contract offering a bounty for each replaced receptacle?