inee fish shentd it can be. rahm emanuel lowered recycling costs by causing competition between government workers and private workers. he allowed the public employees and private sector to compete against each other. in chicago mayor emanuel broke up the city into different zones and kept the public sector with some of them and bid out the recycling in other parts. you had a real world competitive test game. what happened is again competition just by bringing in the private sector the public employees realized they were going to have to step up their game because that is encroachment in their turf so to speak. what happened? over six months they saved $2 million after just the first six months. this is reported by the mayor s office and they reduced the overall cost by 35 percent over a six-months period. that prompted the administration to decide to look at other opportunities to apply that managed competition model. this is happening all over