My daughters ask me why we don’t recycle. I told them there is no money in it. If there was, someone would pay me to recycle.
However here in Thailand there is money in it. Plastic bottles, cardboard, cans, glass bottles, metal, etc. Are all not only accepted at recycle centers, but money paid. We have scavengers (poor Thais) that check our trash daily.
We have a snack store where we get a lot of those recycles. The mother in law controls it for us, when she exchanges she normally gets about 300 Baht ($10), that’s a day’s wage here.
High labor costs make recycling uneconomical.