Mobsters Move into Recycling Business

For anyone who may not have seen an episode of the iconic HBO TV series “The Sopranos,” the US state of New Jersey has a long history of being home to infamous mobsters.

Trash was always their thing, so it probably won’t come as shock to learn that mobsters are now extending their reach by moving into the commercial recycling business.

A state crime commission recently found that a 1983 state law designed to keep Organized Crime out of the trash business didn’t adequately protect its first cousin, the commercial recycling business.

As a result, “The (recycling) industry today remains open to manipulation and abuse by criminal elements,” the commission found, according to this Associated Press story.