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Plastic food containers and trays are stacked and wired with lights, feeling at once like retro-futuristic inventions and something cobbled together after the apocalypse.

“But the pains weren’t gone in two days; they were worse, and grew worse still, as if something inside her were encircled by a wire being drawn tighter and tighter to cut it in two.”

With four words—“What hath God wrought!”—sent over the first working electric telegraph wire in 1844, Samuel Morse helped change the status quo, and helped catapult New York into a leading position.

He works on data-center applications for MetOx International, one of a few companies making wires from advanced materials that are far better at conducting electricity.

The trash the company collects consists of “very high grade copper wire, all the way down to dust,” said Schultheis.