I definitely remember this being a thing in small-town America in the 1980's -- particularly with aluminum cans, which I suppose is one of the more valuable rec

I definitely remember this being a thing in small-town America in the 1980's -- particularly with aluminum cans, which I suppose is one of the more valuable recyclables. Schools and churches would ask people to save their cans and bring them in as a fundraiser, and you'd sometimes see people walking up and down the highway picking up the cans thrown out by litterbugs. And yet today I have to pay someone to haul away my valuable materials. :)