Why do you charge for recycling? Isn’t my recyclable material worth money?

There is a lot of misinformation out in the general public about recycling.  While there can be intrinsic value to some recyclable materials, it takes an enormous amount of those materials to be collected, sorted, processed and stored in order to turn those materials into a salable commodity.  The large overhead costs of collecting those materials and the infrastructure to complete the processing is the main reason for market-driven costs incurred in picking up recycling containers.