Cobbs Recycling Center, 2021 N. 44th St., is leasing a densifier, a machine that compresses the squeaky, crumbly ecological menace into bricks that can be recycled into new plastic products.

Tuesday evening was the city’s first-ever Meet Your Driver event at the Cobbs Recycling Center. “I think sometimes people think 'oh, well you just put it out at the curb and it just disappears ...