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All of the ones I knew of disappeared. I don't think it's really financially viable for the companies that were trying to allow folks to ship materials, without it being obscenely expensive. And to be honest, the idea of shipping waste seems backwards. Local seems like the only good sustainable answer, and I haven't found any in my area.
What I did was find a local maker space that had a grinding machine, and ground up my used PLA. I then donated it to the space for misc usage. Folks there use the PLA chips for all sorts of projects.
Hmm... okay, that makes sense. I'll look around some more for places, but if worst comes to worst I can always pick up a hobby level filament extruder.
Those are extremely expensive. You'll never recoup your costs unless you have a significant amount of scrap. If you are doing it be a good citizen, the maybe find some other locals who would use it was well?