Posts Tagged ‘Goodwill’
Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale by Adam Minter
I’m recycling some of my review of Minter’s first book: Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade to write this review ♥. Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale by Adam Minter is amusing, terrifying, inspiring, infuriating and depressing. Not the book itself, which is wonderful: Minter is an accomplished journalist with a…
Read MoreCompassion won’t surrender
I’m routinely in the neighborhood of the Woodinville Seattle Goodwill donation center: today, Sunday 5/24/2020, months into the COVID19 crisis, people are willing to wait an hour to make donations. And I pass a hospital surrounded by art-poster quality and Sharpie-scribbled “Thank You Medical Personnel, First Responders” signs. I started writing “Compassion can’t be conquered.”…
Read MoreTour a Recycling Plant
How’s this for the ultimate reduce, reuse, recycle? Take a tour of a recycling plant! I had no idea this was possible. My thanks to The Woodinville Weekly, for its February 4, 2019 page 5 article, “What happens after the bin? Behind the scenes at the Recycling Center” giving us a glimpse behind-the-bins at Waste…
Read MoreMonroe Goodwill just got beat
You may remember my post about a Monroe Goodwill which got a donation of marijuana? A Goodwill in Manasota, Florida just got a grenade launcher. http://www.newsweek.com/loaded-grenade-launcher-found-florida-goodwill-charity-bin-797031
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