Sounds like the ‘legitimate’ vendor is price gouging and charging on one end for the pick-up and then is being paid a second time on the other end. That sounds

Sounds like the ‘legitimate’ vendor is price gouging and charging on one end for the pick-up and then is being paid a second time on the other end. That sounds like the bigger racket to me. The ‘criminals’ are just reflecting a more true market value, eg that there should be no pickup fee for the value of this commodity. Further; surely this represents the best of ‘gangs’. “We’ve got too many Vigelantes out improving the efficiency of recycling in our city and stealing a product that’s being discarded on our streets. Oh dear.”