If recycling makes sense, the free market will make it happen. If the market were truly free, long-standing subsidies that favor virgin materials and landfills would not exist, and recycling could compete on a level playing field. There are no markets for recyclables. American manufacturers rely on recyclables to produce many of the products on your store shelves. We are already recycling as much as we can.
Recycling is a burden on families.
For more detailed rebuttals and sources of additional statistics, see the Defending Recycling links page.