Most towns do not charge for garbage collections. Garbage collection is done by the towns, electric and water utilities belong to the central government. There have been talk about adding a charge to utility bills but I do not believe it ever was approved.
Some started a trash bag purchase program to pay for it after Maria, but not sure what happened, I know a lot of people were very unhappy with it. But it was only 2-4 towns out of the 78 towns that make up PR.
