Whereas here in Lane County, there are five (5) private companies providing garbage service that goes to common landfills.

There is a large Corporation that makes enough money providing those services in several States and in Canada that they even sponsor golf tournaments.  

It's called Waste Management.  http://www.wm.com/about/index.jsp

"The company's network includes 367 collection operations, 346 transfer stations, 293 active landfill disposal sites, 16 waste-to-energy plants, 146 recycling plants, 111 beneficial-use landfill gas projects and six independent power production plants. Waste Management offers environmental services to nearly 27 million residential, industrial, municipal and commercial customers in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. With 26,000 collection and transfer vehicles, the company has the largest trucking fleet in the waste industry."

You have too narrow a view of the world.  The world does not end at the Hudson River.

"Government" = "parasite".