[mad_as_he$$]

In the West every model of recycling has been tried and failed. Used to be you could get $30/ton for cardboard now you can't give it away. The cost to haul it exceeds the value. That is the rub. Also out here landfilling is cheaper than about any other option. Glass is sorted at the recycle centers and hauled to the landfill. No market for it that is feasible to cover the haul costs.

[RipSawyer]

When I ran a business back in the eighties there was a period when a man would come and pick up all the empty boxes and haul them away to take to Sonoco products co. He told me he was making about eighty dollars a day which was far more than he could make at any job he could get then. He was actually doing pretty well for a while and then I saw him no more. Someone told me that the market for cardboard was gone.