Abundant Waste: The Gleaner’s Role & Tips for Dumpster Diving
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Abundant Waste: The Gleaner’s Role & Tips for Dumpster Diving
By Wendy Tremayne
A Herman Miller chair, an iPod, a commercial juicer, Charles Russell prints, a china cabinet, used vegetable oil (for fuel), 400 USB thumb drives, and a 5-foot-diameter fiberglass globe. This is a short list of items that my dumpster diving friends recalled collecting in 2009. The makers that I surveyed about waste lit up with desire while talking about the one-of-a kind goods found only in the trash. Glenn Clemmer, board member of The Capital City Arts Initiative in Nevada said about buying goods for art projects, “What fun is that? It’s like cheating!” as he proudly showed me a 3-foot pig his kids dove and gifted him for his birthday. Many agree that a good find gives rise to inspiration for creating projects that were not imagined before the discovery of a great piece of trash.
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