Tel Aviv, Israel — As I have mentioned previously on my trip to the Russian Vodka Room in New York, Russian mobsters are the top of the totem poll of lose-control-of-your-bladder level of scary mobsters. But in Tel Aviv, where Russian immigration has influenced the city in a number of significant ways in the past 15 years or so, the Russian mob is rumored to want to kick ass, take names, collect your plastic bottles, and save the ozone layer.
There are, in my estimation, twelve-thousand recycling contraptions peppering the streets of Tel Aviv, of various levels of decoration. There are some plain ones that are yellow colored, and then there are the flower-power silver ones. But the king of all the recycling cages is the one by Jabotinsky on Dizengoff, the disco cage friend to all those on hallucinogenic drugs.
Rumor has it, the Russian mobsters are the ones who collect the bottles and thus all the $$$, but I have no problem with thugs allegedly takin’ in the cash as long as the world along with their pockets becomes a little more green. After all who doesn’t love recycling? Especially disco recycling.
1 year ago • Notes