Why do most recycling services not accept disposable, recyclable plastic cups?

Question

Clear disposable cups, such as those used for iced drinks at starbucks, are labeled with a recycling symbol with the number one inside it. Unless I am mistaken, why are these cups not accepted for recycling the same way plastic bottles and aluminum cans are?

Answer 1

Same reason few people recycle electronics - profitability. If you can make it profitable you win.

Answer 2

Some places will take it you just have to keep looking. We live near a
landfill that doesn't take plastic at all so we have to take it to another landfill. The landfill we take it to now tells us that it no longer accepts
1 and 2 color plastics all 1 and 2 plastics must be clear. So much for
trying to do the right thing by recycling, we'd get glass if we could but
it seems everything is now in plastic and with numbers such as 5 and
7. We have over 7 landfills in less than a 50sq. mile area and with 2
due for another expansion. Scary to say the least.

It isn't profitable, but the landfill still rakes in money and they're trying
to get us to give them our aluminum, heck no we get money for it ourselves.

Answer 3

I have no idea. But I can make one suggestion. Don't buy from Starbucks.