Unanswered questions.

So after spending a good portion of the day searching all that I've been able to find are vague references that the receptacles are there to collect the Metrocards for recycling.

So then I wondered: What are they being recycled into?
And then I started humming to the tune of Whitney Houston's "Where Do Broken Hearts Go?":

Where do Metrocards go?

Do they find their way home

to the pockets of straphangers

and the love that's waiting there?

And if somebody swipes you,

why can't they always swipe you?

For an easier ride

why can't I just refill you endlessly?

And... I stumbled across this.