There are things that were recycled before recycling was “cool”; metals and paper/cardboard - it makes sense to continue recycling those.
Also glass bottles that were returned, cleaned and refilled.
Everything else - forget it.
Sadly glass bottles are one of those things that it does not make sense to reuse. The cost to haul them back and clean them wipes out any savings you might get from recycling.
Also sometimes the cleaning doesn't quite work. That can result in the end of your company.
I think paper has overloaded the system. I have heard that the big cities have warehouses full of newspapers to be recycled with no takers. My father-in-law was a chemical engineer at a paper mill and he once said that old newsprint is a useful addition to the mix but at only a certain percentage. I don’t remember what it was but it was not half.I remember being surprised that it was so low. I had been zealous for recycling and finding out things like that dampened my enthusiasm.Now when I hear local pols hustling a recycling ordinance I know that they will have to raise taxes to pay for it.