Re:Making a Living Collecting Cans
by kansface on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @02:17PM
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The trucks will just be going to the new distribution center instead of the old one. Also, the article points out that this doesn't decrease spending since the city would otherwise make the money from the stolen cans.
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When you put refuse to the curb, it's generally regarded as discarded. That word -- stolen -- doesn't mean what you think it means.
If the collection is partly subsidized by the presence of recyclables in that refuse, does that change things? I don't know enough about trash collection to know to what degree that's the case (I would expect it to vary by municipality).