Where does the trash go?

I noticed that we were taking the trash out a lot, almost every day. So I decided that our house hold was going to help out the environmnet a little. I started seperating our trash cardboard, plastic bottles and newspaper. I started looking for a place to take our recyclables. Can you believe I can't find one? Maybe I'm not asking the right person, maybe I'm not looking in the right places? But I can not find a dump station or a place where you can take your trash, much less the stuff you recycle. Even Moncks Corner has these kinds of things. Is Texas that behind in times? They are so proud of everything else around here you would think they would be on the upswing of things. How can there be no recycle stations around here? Is it all of Texas or just in the area I'm in? So in the meantime I have carboard piling up on top of my freezer and bags of plastic bottles hanging from my cabinets. What the heck do I do with this stuff?