<a href="http://www.wsj.com/">The Wall Street Journal</a>
In the U.S., many cities and towns pick up detergent bottles, milk jugs and other bits of household plastic and sell them to recyclers who sort, process and resell the scrap. These municipalities typically earned cashas much as $10 a ton in parts of New Jerseyfor selling recyclable materials under contracts that tie the sales price to commodities prices, with a minimum.
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