Monday, June 11, 2012

Turning trash to treasure

Turning trash to treasure

ONE man's garbage is another man's treasure. No one in Buff Bay, Portland, knows this perhaps better than Neville Webb who operates a collection centre for recyclables at his home in Woodstock.

He has made a thriving business out of buying plastic bottles, tins and batteries from scavengers who rummage the nearby Doctor's Wood disposal site and ferret out the items which are later bagged and transported to a recycling company Kingston where the cans are compressed into loom, the plastic into polyester fibre, and the lead removed from the batteries.

Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Turning-trash-to-treasure_11653704#ixzz1xYaZ0EKd

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