>>248256>>248200Cool, man.
I used to do this a lot. I moved somewhere new and showed up basically with my car and whatever was in it.
I furnished my entire cabin and found lots of cool shit at the dump. Not even junky crap, but some pretty good stuff.
The dump provides, man, the dump provides.
More cities need friendlier recycling programs that connect people who wish to share their unwanted stuff. So much of the "garbage" out there isn't even garbage, just no longer needed/wanted to the person who has it. And so, we march all this shit to the landfill and then go out and buy more.
Fuck, even just look at building supplies. The waste is astounding, and half of us here on /out/ dream about having a small cabin/house somewhere, but we're too poor to make it happen. For those of us willing to put in the work to put a home together we can do it for cheap, but we need materials. The materials are out there, just being trucked to the landfill.
Check out this dude, he makes awesome homes for "poor" folks entirely out of "waste" material. Fucking awesome. We need more of this in the world.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/garden/03recycle.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVLu99Ja2mAAlso, by the way, apparently something like 40% (FORTY PERCENT) of the food produced globally is wasted. Roughly speaking, that means we could have 40% more land available to /out/ and wild spaces.
