A practical example of gov’t vs the market

I keep a box in the garage where I throw all aluminum cans, whether pop (soda), beer or otherwise. I do this so that I can recycle them.

Now the city where I live requires you to crush all of the cans and take them to a recycling center and give them to the city for free. That’s government bureaucracy in action. And so I won’t do that.

But there is a business in my city, a private metal collector and recycler, that does NOT require me to crush the cans and on TOP of that will pay me by the pound for my aluminum cans. So I don’t crush the cans, I dump them from the box into a big, old heavy duty leaf bag and when the bag fills up I simply grab it and travel in my internal combustion engine SUV, not a stupid city bus, and take it directly to the capitalist business, not fifteen stops later via bus, where they dump it into a tub, weigh it and then pay me CASH (via a check) for the cans and we both go away happy!

Cans have been recycled. I make money. They make money. And the Libs that run the city can stuff it.