There is cost associated with that, and given the current very low levels ofvalueof most of the recycling materials, you're not going to get a lot of income from there.
Louis Woodhill, following on the work of Art Laffer, developed a framework for judging whether any given amendment to current tax law pays for itself or is self-defeating by analyzing the change in the present valueof revenues discounted out to the infinite horizon produced by the tax amendment.