Trash show-and-tell

Last Wednesday I presented a show-and-tell for children at the local Browns Bay Library in my guise as "The Professor of Garbology".

Below: a clock made from a frissbee -

Below: an apron made from a coffee bean sack -

Below: a broken kete handle replaced with a bicycle innertube-

 Below: the Prof ponders a recycling query -

Read more of my adventures in dumpsterdiving, upcycling, recycling, and  freeganing at:
The Adlington Post









 

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