Higher processing costs and lower commodity prices are crushing recyclers around the country, with no easy options for them to escape from the vise grip squeezing them. “This is the most difficult I have ever seen the market,” said Jamie Gormley, business development manager for Centennial Recycling, a metro Denver firm that connects recyclers with buyers for their materials. Gormley includes the Great Recession, when a rapid drop in demand caused prices for recycled materials to plummet.