Our council offers the same kind of recycling facility, though I've seen them simply pick up the bag and fling it in the back of the lorry with the other rubbish. Our handyman loves going to the recycling centre though so he usually takes whatever we don't need.
We've had one full power LED go in the last five years. The only ones we've really had problems with are the low power ones in the bathroom, of which one has failed and two are flickery (and in the process of being replaced, which is one of those mission impossible tasks that involves clambering around the attic, extricating the fitting, dismantling it, removing the bulb, putting in a new bulb, finding out it's the wrong shade of white, repeating, putting everything back, taking it out to repaint the ceiling, and putting it back again, and then discovering it's probably not the bulb but the circuit, etc.)
I'm sure the bulb we have in the bedroom is twenty years old, it takes a week to reach sub-optimal brightness. I do periodically contemplate replacing that with something that dispatches feisty lumens with more alacrity, mostly when trying to figure out what colour trousers I'm holding and whether I'll go to work in a colour concoction that entails me free entrance to Fashion Week's parade of mistakes. That said, neither of us are getting any younger, so perpetual bedroom twilight is perhaps not such a bad thing.