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I didn't mean to make a general point out of it. I was just impressed at the time, because the amount of rubbish that had accumulated over decades really was immense, how much came out. This also only went on for two months at the most, and then it seemed to be done.
(Bulky waste collections used to be free; now that there is a small fee, the argument that administrating the small fee may cost more than not administrating it may also have bite again, but I don't know.)
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The ‘backlog’ argument is commonly used to support free public services at the point of use (vide the early days of the NHS), but I don’t think it holds water - for me the point is that there are few constraints to induced demand when something appears to be ‘free’