We all feel better about ourselves when we recycle, but one fact of recycling is, while it's good for the environment, it's not good for the bottom line.

That's what the Town of Turner Valley is finding out as the cost of their recycling program is more than what their making selling the recycled materials.

CAO Barry Williamson says making money off recycling may have gone the way of the dinosaur.

"I think the days of getting some good market value for the products that come out of there, whether it's newsprint or white paper or cardboard, glass, tin. Those days are over. The markets changed. So  you still want to maintain the recycling initiatives. You still want to maintain recycling as a service offering to our community, so that we can get those products out of the landfill and they can be recycled.'

The Town, along with Black Diamond and the M.D. of Foothills expect to see the cost of recycling in 2016 double over what it cost in 2012, going from $94,997 to $207,151.