"Karen" > wrote in message
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On Aug 14, 7:26 am, "brooklyn1" > wrote:
> Nonsense. The municipality still receives the recyclables, when the
> homeless turn it in for cash instead of the contracted trash collectors
> turning it in for cash... if there was no monetary reimbursement neither
> the
> homeless or the trash collectors would concern themselves with recylables.
> I'd rather the homeless get the cash than some maffia run private
> sanitation.

If the contracted trash collectors received more money from the cash
they received from the recyclables,

Think before sending, that makes no cents.

they would not charge the city as
much for their service of running their trucks. They haul away the low-
income recycling materials as well as the lucrative aluminum and
glass. The big difference in your Sopranos theory, is that the
homeless don't care about styrofoam pellets.

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Neither do the trash collectors care, in fact they'd prefer not having to
deal with recylables at all, they charge more for collecting trash because
they are pressured to as part of the deal, do you really think they do that
high labor job gratis? duh. If the municipality and those who reside there
were truly concerned they'd install a deposit law on beverage containers and
erect collection centers where styrofoam is collected, weighed, and paid
for... obviously they don't GAF. Btw, styrofoam is one of the by products
that's not collected from trash as a recyclable, it's been tried and doesn't
work, costs more to recycle than it's worth. Hardly anyone uses styrofoam
packing pellets anymore, now they use bubble cushioning. Container depost
laws ensure that better than 95% of recyclable containers are properly
disposed of.