Funny thing, in TAkedown, the mob had just started to get into recycling, as a reaction to pressure holding onto their, what was it, property rights system?
Yep, they had no choice. Customers learned their "garbage" actually had a value worthy of a rebate, haulers went berserk trying to hold out as long as they could before admitting they could recycle much of the waste coming out of office buildings in NYC.
Haulers were Recycling it long before they admitted it to the customer, who was basically considered a jerkoff who needed to get fucked, and fucked they got! For decades. It's amazing what you can recycle when you're getting paid to take it as garbage. The incentive then was more money for the hauler, and fuck giving anything back to the customer.
Even today, recycling doesn't pay. Haulers still have to charge customers for picking up various recyclable material because the profit on the material is next to nothing. Recycling is a mess and it's going to take a long time before anything other than paper, cardboard & metal pays to recycle.
