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Nearly all of your recyclables are sold in the same way scrap steel is sold, plastic is worth 3 times what steel is, but it's light, so many recycling organizations break even if they are lucky as buyers require everything to be bailed up in several ton bails... try that at home.
No sort recycling us difficult, it still gets sorted first by hand to keep automated equipment from being damaged, then by machine then by hand again to pull stuff the machine screwed up, it still is only 90% effective.
Paper and plastic bags screw up single stream more then anything, so if you do have "no sort" or single bin, keep plastic bags and paper out!
As for "composting"everything in the landfill, landfills cost roughly $0.03 per pound to throw things "away", so if you can recycle or compost something for less, you are ahead.
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