[Link] Australia’s hard rubbish heroes risk council fines to recycle and re-home their kerbside plunder

Read: 7/2/2022 www.theguardian.com

An abandoned sound system left outside a club. A giant paper elephant 2m long and 1m high. A group of puppets, waiting to be liberated. Annual kerbside cleanup days are, for some, akin to Christmas – a holy time for up-cyclers and “waste warriors” to forage the streets for a speck of gold.

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