This is a must watch.
“The second floor of a Department of Sanitation garage in East Harlem is home to thousands of objects New Yorkers have thrown away over the last three decades. The items were found in the trash, but look nothing like garbage. They have been carefully organized and kept by sanitation worker Nelson Molina.
The Treasure in the Trash Museum’, as he calls it, is an impressive collection of objects that Molina and some of his coworkers found during their daily job. ‘We are not allowed to take stuff home,’ Molina told the Guardian’s Ana Terra Athayde, ‘That’s why I like to display and everything”*
He has been doing it since he was nine years of age, so his eye is keen. The ‘museum’ is not open to the public, to view it, one must get authorization. I like that he says he will return anything someone says is ‘theirs’. That might bring up a lot of debate if it were open to the public. I see a lot of children cleaning out ‘parents’ stuff in the video.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2014/dec/22/new-york-trash-museum-video
*taken directly from The Guardian