ONE MAN’S TRASH IS ANOTHER MAN’S TREASURE
11 May
In cities like New York and wealthy suburbs like Grosse Pointe, Mich., and Plano, Tex., it is possible to live like a king (well, a duke anyway) out of a dumpster. Sushi, cashmere sweaters, even Apple computers–all for the taking. “We’re used to fulfilling most of our needs through the marketplace,” says Syracuse University culture professor Robert Thompson. “But now with technology there is access to more that is free than in any time in the history of the world.”
Don’t get laid…for ECO SAKE !
11 Maythe New York University student Emma Kaywin reinvigorates a pile of expired condoms from her HIV Hotline internship by using them to make two dresses and a coat, rather than allowing them to add to the landfills.