Rubbish reclamation | bottles to birdfeeder

Some early mornings walks yield surprising amounts of discarded treasures.  Maybe it's because it's a Monday, and the weekend meant people did a combination of cleaning (free piles) and sports fun (leaving behind clothes and water bottles).  Sunday night at the local free outdoor concert, my daughter and I walked past an orphaned Yeti bottle, sitting in the grass, far from any human beings. I'm guessing someone's going to miss it, but I rescued it to put it back in human circulation.

Monday morning, my walk home from my run with my friend took me past the basketball courts in the park; there were empty plastic water bottles all the heck over the place, and I picked up a handful of these to carry them to the recycling bins, which were across the street, so not exactly right nearby -- on the one hand, you'd think athletes who play basketball could walk across the street to toss their discards. On the other hand, I know the psychology says people don't make that kind of effort, and the city really ought to have trash bins next to the picnic tables along the side of the court where all the trash accumulates.  So, I cleaned up some of the bottles, and I also nabbed a white cotton undershirt left in the parking lot.

Further along on my way home, I picked up a black apron from the sidewalk; it had been there a few days.  I'll launder it and take it to our local soup kitchen, where it'll get put to good use.

And maybe because I'd been generating some good rubbish karma, when I passed by William's house -- the place that has the most amazing on-going free piles I've ever had the privilege of admiring -- there was a bird feeder.  Huzzah! I'd been contemplating getting a bird feeder for my back porch ever since I got back from my travels abroad; I'd even gone so far as to look on Craigslist and to do internet searches for "build your own".  And then there was a bird feeder sitting on William's Wall, just waiting for me to take it home.  Good rubbish karma, indeed!

Yeti insulated water bottle, black apron,
white undershirt, bird feeder . . . reclaimed!