Today on 16th Street I passed by a guy who was feverishly pulling books out of a recyclables bag left at the curb for the sanitation truck. He scored big: it looked to be about a hundred books. His "granny cart" was already half full of other treasures.
An hour previous I had carried 10 blocks home, an old Macintosh G4 tower that was left curbside.
A few weeks back, an old record player was on the curb around the corner in front of The Projects.
My girlfriend's wardrobe has at least a dozen perfectly good items that have been liberated from New York's curbside Free sale.
What else in the trash piles is usable? Tons of organic refuse that can be turned into methanol? I'm sure there are plenty of other inefficiencies in the waste stream, and the various re-purposing schemes for them have yet to be imagined.
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UPDATE 29-aug-2009 :
got this bitchen check embosser in Midtown, it was perched on top a giant pile of garbage bags at noon.
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