Do you compensate the individual householder for his excess labor to collect and sort recyclables?
Do you compensate the individual householder for the use of his property when he dedicates portions of his home for the purposes of recycling waste?
If not, then the net profit of your enterprise does not reflect the overall profitability of the activity.
I'm sure a lot of people are making a lot of money off recycling. But they are doing so by avoiding the many of the costs by forcing somebody else to do the work.