This article did not mention it, but that is in fact how it works: Other countries pay for the recycling. > and municipal systems pay recyclers rather than the

This article did not mention it, but that is in fact how it works: Other countries pay for the recycling. > and municipal systems pay recyclers rather than the other way around. Yup, because the value of the recycling is not quite enough, but the recyclers then sell the recycling. That's why there is a whole list of what they won't accept. It's not because they can't reprocess it, it's because there is no one to sell it to. If this is news to you, well, now you've learned something new.