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Aluminum for instance is very dirty to make and consumes tremendous amounts of power so every can you keep out of the landfill is one less that has to be made. Cans are the cornerstone of your metals collection because they are everywhere. When you toss in some copper and stainless and lead etc. you can walk out of the scrap yard with a sum that is worth your while. A funny thing happens when you start keeping cans, people throw them at you and if you are not willing to pick through trash cans, like I am, then that is a second way to accumulate cans. Put a bucket at your work labeled cans and watch it fill up. People hate cans but they love to give them to you! 

When you start looking around you see that very few people are "going green" at all. When I look into a gas station trash can I see 5 plastic bottles for every 1 aluminum can. Since there is nowhere to get paid for plastic, then they go to the landfill. Plastics are petroleum based so it's kind of like dumping oil into landfills. If Smalltime recycling moves forward as planned, we will become the buyer of plastic bottles in the Indy area.