Most recycling places get flooded with CRT monitors, don't think you want to get stuck with those starting a recycling drive.
I could be wrong but recyclers get paid by businesses to take the stuff away, and get paid by others for the recycled parts. There is some value to the machines as scrap, you need to figure out what that is and then slightly overbid on pallate sized loads or nobody will want to bother with you.

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Some recycling companies only deal with corporate clients while others deal with both. The city of Houston accepts computers, CRTs, etc. for recycling for free at 3 drop off sites. All of this stuff actually goes to the bastard recycler's warehouse - he has a contract and buys the pallets as-is. The city has a stated limit of 5 electronic items per month per customer, but this is only enforced by the collector's memory and within one drop off site. There are 3 sites, and I have access to 3 cars (mine and 2 friends), so we could possibly get rid of 5 x 3 x 3 or 45 CRT monitors per month just by sending them to these various sites free of charge.

You need to figure out a value added service like taking in dead LCD monitors fixing them and then reselling them. Most just need a few capacitors and maybe a transister or two to become working again. Setup a shop in your apartment and do upgrades for people. The local guy I get stuff from (free) has tons of people who know him dropping off free machines to refurb and sell, he freecycles whatever he doesn't want to deal with. Most he does OS, HD, video, RAM upgrades and simple spyware cleanup.
As far as being profitable, what happened to just wanting to save macs from the crusher?

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I am about to sign a lease on a small office and warehouse. It's about 275 sq ft of office and 800 sq ft. of warehouse. Compare to the current storage unit of 100 sq ft. and I just exploded in available room. I'm looking for new ways to monetize the new space. My friend will be running a repair shop specializing in inexpensive repairs for out of warranty Macs. I will also be doing more local pickups now that I have a place that's not my apartment, to meet people at. So now I am seeking out large lots of more recent Macs like iMacs that I can sell on the website.

Saving Macs from the crushers is still a core goal. I will have plenty of space for that, and I pledge never to part out a working Mac. If the price is fair, I will pick up the old beige Macs and all that stuff and offer it here and on the site and eBay and wherever else. Travis Hunt is working on a non profit that gives Macs with educational software to kids and stuff and I'll probably be donating some of the LC 580s and stuff that are harder to sell, the ones I get in a pallet for $5.