I’ve always wondered this do they sell it to another recycling company down the road? If cans are selling for $1 a pound how much profit do they make?
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When you buy a can of soda, you pay the price plus a deposit for the can. When you return the empty can you get the deposit back. Since most people didn’t recycle on their own, they make you pay a deposit as an incentive to recycle to get your money back. A lot of people still don’t recycle. People still throw away cans but they aren’t throwing away the deposit, the state already has the money. The recycling companies get reimbursed by the state but the state is making millions of free money when the cans aren’t returned.
I learned this when I collected cans at an an airport. I went to recycle them and was told They don’t take out of state cans. Nobody will take them because the recyclers get reimbursed by the state. Since I couldn’t do anything with the cans, I asked if they wanted them. Again they said no, nobody will take them. I ended up throwing them away. If they were really concerned about recycling, they would have taken the cans.
[Can recycling.](https://www.aluminum.org/sites/default/files/2021-09/CanRecyclingManifesto_0.pdf) “45 billion aluminum beverage cans are recycled each year in
the United States, a near equal amount goes to landfills.”
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