Around a third of America’s trash gets recycled each year, but that means the vast majority of it still winds up in landfills and elsewhere in our environment. Still, recycling programs are expensive, and people have mixed feelings on who should foot the bill.

We spend a lot of money on electronics, and when we’re done with them, we often just throw them away. But they are still valuable, and there are many ways you can get paid to recycle them, which ensures we don’t waste the precious materials inside them.