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Clean paper and cardboard are easily recyclable and worth money. I first figured this out over 30 years ago while taking commuter trains into NYC.
There were approximately one yard cubed wagons left on the platform to discard your already read newspapers for recycling. Local hustlers would often reassemble the papers and sell for half.
At some point locking tops eere put on so it was difficult to remove the papers. This was because the agency collecting the old newspaper was making money from it.
Fast forward. Some cities make it a crime to rummage through the recycling bins.
There is money there.
Uhhh what? I always thought those bins were to stop people from sharing papers and forcing everyone to buy a fresh copy
I was there when it started.
You were where when it started?
Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
You worked there and were part of the decision making process? Or you saw the exact same thing I did and came to a different conclusion?
I read there reasoning and believed it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/19/nyregion/new-recycle-bins-stop-a-long-habit.html
That article says, explicitly, that they did it to stop people from getting free papers and to kill the secondary market. It's a completely profit-driven artificial scarcity move that has nothing to do with recycling.