The transportation is the cheap bit. The actual recycling is the expensive bit, and I highly doubt that they'd be selling the materials for a high enough price to justify a buyer.
Bandai has runs of Gunpla (Gundam model kits) that are called "Ecopla", which is essentially recycling their own plastic from defective runners to create new runners for kits, and that's truly the best way -- in house recycling to minimize waste.
But once it hits the consumer, that plastic is their plastic and isn't going to be recycled, just tossed into the garbage
When I was a kid, soda came in glass bottles instead of plastic. Grocery stores would collect and pay back deposits, then Coke & Pepsi would wash & refill the bottles. Guess who first lobbied municipal governments to start recycling programs? Soda companies. They didn't want the hassle and cost of collecting and reusing bottles; this way, the taxpayer would fund the recycling programs instead.
The transportation is the cheap bit. The actual recycling is the expensive bit, and I highly doubt that they'd be selling the materials for a high enough price to justify a buyer.
Bandai has runs of Gunpla (Gundam model kits) that are called "Ecopla", which is essentially recycling their own plastic from defective runners to create new runners for kits, and that's truly the best way -- in house recycling to minimize waste.
But once it hits the consumer, that plastic is their plastic and isn't going to be recycled, just tossed into the garbage
When I was a kid, soda came in glass bottles instead of plastic. Grocery stores would collect and pay back deposits, then Coke & Pepsi would wash & refill the bottles. Guess who first lobbied municipal governments to start recycling programs? Soda companies. They didn't want the hassle and cost of collecting and reusing bottles; this way, the taxpayer would fund the recycling programs instead.