I remember talking to my trash guy on recycling.
They lose money on all recycling except aluminum cans
When I was doing contract work in Iraq, all the mess halls had recycle bins set up to deposit various items for recycling. However, when our company was tasked with determining the number of recycle facilities located in Iraq, we found that they had nada, zilch, none in the entire country. It all ended up in the local dump, except for the aluminum cans, which apparently the chinese were getting. A “feel good” program that accomplished little to nothing.
That is the usual case. Non-AL recycling is a money loser. I do sell back my old steel though, but you have to look for the few places that do this.
Never understood recycling anything but metal. Glass is SAND! Are we seriously thinking we need to conserve sand???? Plastic is cheaper and cleaner to produce than to recycle. It’s man-made. Paper is a renewable resource by default! Trees grow and reproduce. It’s just insanity.
>>I remember talking to my trash guy on recycling. They lose money on all recycling except aluminum cans<<
More likely, you, not the trash guy, lose money on all recycling except aluminum cans.
If your trash guy works for the local government, the loss is made up by raising your taxes somewhere.
If he works for a private company, the company makes up for the loss by raising his fees, and that loss comes out of either your local government’s pocket (and yours via higher taxes) or out of your pocket directly if you pay for garbage pickup.