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This seems like an opportunity for vertical integration. Goodwill can start an unofficial recycling sorting operation, and learn to make a profit center out of this cost center.

This field is also ripe for innovation.

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> Goodwill can start an unofficial recycling sorting operation, and learn to make a profit center out of this cost center.

Most recycling centers are running at a deficit because no one wants to buy the recycled material.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBGZtNJAt-M

Seems implausible that they can perpetually run at a deficit. Unless you mean absent subsidies. But if such subsidies exist then that is one way to convert the losses into profits.

In my local area, garbage fees are used to pay for the losses of recycling. That's the usual thing in the US. Same thing for residential waste in landfills.

Thanks for the NPR video. Eye opening.

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