Ours started charging last year.
It is £20 per year for up to 8 bags per fortnight - these are large green canvas bags, reuseable, which they empty into the truck and return.
If you don't want to pay that, you can take it yourself to the main council recycling centers for free (ours is 7 miles away, so not too great a cost in diesel, we take it up when we have a car full).