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Ricardo Rioz, a city of Madison worker, picks up a recycling container Monday along Gilson Street. In November, the shrinking prices for paper, plastics and other recyclables were so low that the city had to pay to sort and sell its recyclables, instead of getting a check for the proceeds.

Workers bring in electronic equipment for dismantling and recycling at Resource Solutions on the city's Far East Side. Low prices for metal have meant layoffs at the company.

Trying to make a buck on recyclables has been tough over the last few months as prices for recyclables, like these bales of wire at Resource Solutions in Madison, have tumbled.

Items are moved around a Recycle America warehouse before they are recycled. Recycling the soda and beer cans, newspapers, milk jugs, junk mail and other items that fill our hunter green bins was a losing deal for the city of Madison in November.

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