perfidy

"... a tendency to reinvest can profits in additional redeemables, such as beer."

and

"Dorsey is one of those select few who come from old can money.."

Old can money .. that's classic. I'm still laughing. It's funny you point this out but I seriously just had a neighbor run off one of these "bottle barons" just last week and they were trying to help themselves to the neatly assembled "recyclable" bins I put outside. When I told my wife how "jipped" I felt .. she mentioned that it was going to be recycled anyhow. I guess she's right, however something still erks me to this day about how my conservation labor (however little it may be) financially benefited someone else. I guess I could keep the recycling inside until the recycling truck comes and make a mad dash to it -- but then I'd really be called the crazy neighbor.