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[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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[Link] Cord collectors and scavengers: inside the race to rescue hard rubbish
Read: 12/4/2021 www.theage.com.au
Pianos, sideboards and dining tables. Antiques. Washing machines. Hard rubbish season is upon us and, for the savvy bargain hunter, there are steals to be had. But there’s a risk that anything not reclaimed from the streets will be picked up by trucks and crushed on the spot for landfill.