Everything, it seems, is recyclable nowadays. But is it all worth it? Many people think it should be compulsory to sort your papers and plastics from your other rubbish but does the process do more harm than good? The answer? Very debatable. It certainly isn't cheap to recycle. It costs millions of pounds to pickup, sort and process all those plastic bottles, papers, aluminum cans and cardboard food boxes we discard. Putting an accurate figure on the overall cost of recycling is highly unpredictable since each individual council seems to have its own way of dealing with it. So, do most recycling programs lose money? Of course they do. But then again, so does your run of the mill rubbish bin collection. The question is whether disposal programs involving recycling are more expensive than the old-fashioned variety. To begin with the answer would be undoubtedly, yes. After a few years, however, many find that recycling saves money. Some don't, and eventually those folks may