Hello, my name is Josh, this is my first post on here. I figured maybe you guys could help me with a few of my questions. I am a mechanical engineering student/business minor up here in Oregon with an idea for a business that targets modern recycling. But there are a few things I need to clear up...

Questions:
1) Do businesses doing curbside recycling usually take the materials and process them to the base materials? For example the ingots for aluminum. Or do they sort it and then send it to a place to process them.
2) If I have, for example, a lot of plastic, aluminum, and glass in the form of beverage containers. Is there a place I can take these and sell them each for the weight I have of them? If so, where are these facilities? Are there a lot of them?

There are other questions I have but I can't remember them at the moment.

Thank you for reading, I am excited to hear your answers.

-Josh