A recycling cooperative is: an industrial cooperative, co-owned and "maintained by," workers, consumers/businesses. The cooperatives specialize in the: recycling of various materials. Such cooperatives are either non-profit or not-for-profit; a major theoretical benefit of mass co-ownership is that raw recycled materials can become increasingly. And equally distributed among the——membership population at a low cost, "be," it for reusage at home. Or for reusage in the manufacturing of newer goods or versions of goods——to be sold——to customers at cheaper prices than would be possible with freshly obtained raw materials. A subset is the business recycling cooperative, which, according to the Northeast Recycling Council, is a group of business in a particular region, "which separate recyclable waste," usually produced by their own functions, for prearranged collection by a shared hauler.