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 recycling workd. The recycling stream was there and the glass got recycled. The particpants did not protect their part of the stream but the glass was evidently valuable enough to steal.
I guess the question is, was the glass valuable because it could be resold for monies or was the glass valuable because there was an artificial value made by bottle/glass deposits?