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The Garbage business
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01/05/03 04:28 PM
01/05/03 04:28 PM
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Don Mataya
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What is exactly the garbage businesses the mob is in? I mean how do they profit off of it and how does it work?
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Re: The Garbage business
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01/05/03 06:04 PM
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The Slippery Slope
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Here in the East it's referred to as "Private Carting". Most, if not all, municipalites, have sanitation departments that pick up garbage from private residences, but not businesses. So a business must hire a private firm to do this. It seems as though these firms (as are many others in other businesses) are all controlled by organized crime. They carve out territories, and if you require the services of one of these companies, you can't just pick up the phone book and start calling around to get prices and such. You can only deal with the one whose "territory" you are in.
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Re: The Garbage business
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01/05/03 09:03 PM
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Turnbull
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Originally posted by DonColletti:
Didn't this all start in New York when there was no one to pick up any trash so it was very lucrative? Perhaps. Garbage collection services--municipal or private--are a 20th century development, initiated to stop typhus and other diseases spread by poor sanitation. But, as plawrence said, in some cities (notably New York), municipal (taxpayer-paid) garbage disposal services collect only residential trash. Businesses, which produce more trash, are expected to pay private carters. This isn't a business that attracts a lot of competitors to begin with, so it's very easy for a criminal cartel to monopolize by simply muscling out anyone else. Once the monopoly is established, the business has to pay the dictated rate--no alternatives. The Mob also maximizes its profits by blatantly violating environmental, health and safety laws--they control garbage dumps where it's cheaper for their own trucks to dump because the dumps don't comply with any rules and regulations. All in all, it's a homely but highly profitable business!
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E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu...
E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu
Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
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Re: The Garbage business
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01/09/03 10:08 PM
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"And then theres the garbage disposal. I don't know if you know who runs that establishment, but I assure you, it is not the boy scouts." - Rodney Dangerfield, "Back to School"
There was this kid I grew up with -- he was younger than me. Sorta looked up to me -- you know. We did our first work together -- worked our way out of the street. Things were good, we made the most of it. During Prohibition -- we ran molasses into Canada -- made a fortune -- you father, too. As much as anyone, I loved him -- and trusted him. Later on he had an idea -- to build a city out of a desert stop-over for GI's on the way to the West Coast. That kid's name was Moe Green -- and the city he invented was Las Vegas. This was a great man -- a man of vision and guts. And there isn't even a plaque -- or a signpost -- or a statue of him in that town! Someone put a bullet through his eye. No one knows who gave the order -- when I heard it, I wasn't angry; I knew Moe -- I knew he was head-strong, talking loud, saying stupid things. So when he turned up dead -- I let it go. And I said to myself, this is the business we've chosen -- I didn't ask who gave the order -- because it had nothing to do with business!
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