Re-imagine Your Garbage
Our award-winning art programs endeavor to promote new ways of thinking about conserving resources, art and the environment. We host professional, full-time artists and provide them with access to materials that would have otherwise gone to a landfill or recycling facility, a stipend, and exhibition space.
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In the News
David Nanney, a supervisor at Recycle Central, the recycling plant Recology operates in San Francisco to sort bottles, cans, and paper, noticed the occasional BART ticket moving across a set of screens inside the plant.
BART riders often have multiple tickets with remaining value and some people toss them in their recycle bin. But because the tickets are made of a very thin plastic and are lightweight they present a unique challenge inside the plant.
At Nanney's suggestion, plant management enlisted the help of the recycling sorters to watch for the occasional BART ticket and toss them in special collection boxes.
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