Annoyingly, you do seem to get paid a small default amount of trash objects, but recycled scrap material is worthless; The crafting isn't filled out much yet so I'll semi-spoil > > > > > and tell you you do not need scrap papers and only need a tiny bit of scrap plastic, so its best to sell/dispose/burn paper and plastic trash since its very, very easy to get more of it anyway. Other trash is quite valuable to keep for recycling and crafting though.