Yes. A repair website would rather you repair your phone than recycle it. You are free to do that.
And if you don’t want to go through ifixit to do that, you can go through Apple for the first five years of the product life (7 in California) and even do the repair yourself:
https://www.ifixit.com/News/94386/the-truth-about-apples-free-iphone-recycling-program-the-earth-deserves-better
Yes. A repair website would rather you repair your phone than recycle it. You are free to do that.
And if you don’t want to go through ifixit to do that, you can go through Apple for the first five years of the product life (7 in California) and even do the repair yourself:
https://support.apple.com/self-service-repair