actually recycling is working well in the video. The items are gathered and sold to someone who values them enought to resell them and get them reused.
More about price collapse would be interesting, any links about what happened in your town?
Recycling, as designed to work, does NOT work well in the video.
The taxpayers shelled out big money for the bins, and more money to collect the recycling product—glass.
Any profit is supposed to go to offset the cost of recycling.
When the addicts steal the glass, they are stealing resources belonging to the city, i.e. the taxpayer.
So, the addict gets the money, the taxpayer pays for the whole collection set-up and gets nothing.
The addict compromises the recycling loop, causing additional costs.
Plus if they can’t steal enough glass, thyey’ll come to your house and rob you and kill you, if they want to.
“The items are gathered and sold...”
By whom? For free? Of course not. Sold to whom? Why don’t the people who buy it from the people who gather it up just gather it up themselves, and cut out the middleman? See where I’m going with that?