Culture
Inside the Surprisingly Lucrative World of Cardboard Theft
With the help of a rental truck, you too can cash in on the multimillion-dollar cardboard-rustling business.
For most people navigating the sidewalks of New York, the corrugated-cardboard bundles that stores put out for recycling are either an obstacle or nothing at all – invisible stitches in the city's zippy visual drapery.
But for a subset of underground scavengers, they represent a drool-inducing resource, something to be urgently carried away to a recycling plant in exchange for cash money.