Easy way to tell: In the suburbs, if you put out a big pile of plastic on your front lawn, it'll be there a million years from now. If you put out a big pile of metal on your front lawn, it'll be gone in an hour or two by scrappers who make good money recycling metal.
If recycling plastics was anywhere near profitable, they'd be gone in moments, too. The only plastics you're getting rid of are plastic shielding on big metal things.
Metal recycling is not a scam. Plastic is.
Metal recycling isn't a scam, but a metric shitload is landfilled because separating plastic and cans is a pain in the ass.
Easy way to tell: In the suburbs, if you put out a big pile of plastic on your front lawn, it'll be there a million years from now. If you put out a big pile of metal on your front lawn, it'll be gone in an hour or two by scrappers who make good money recycling metal.
If recycling plastics was anywhere near profitable, they'd be gone in moments, too. The only plastics you're getting rid of are plastic shielding on big metal things.