Right now there are some awesome filing cabinets at 11 Greenwich Street and some serviceable tables at 201 West 21st Street.
Our friend Jim - when he isn't overseeing servers for Gawker - has been working madly on this supercool site: GarbageScout. It's the type of thing that Apartment Therapists can only dream of when trying to sleep at night. Now it's a reality.
GarbageScout is an application on top of Google Maps that allows you to post great street trash finds via computer or cameraphone to street@garbagescout.com. Isn't the internet great? This promises to make dumpster diving easy.
This is one of the coolest things I've ever heard of in my life!
Everybody wins! The city or the building that pays for the hauler to drag it all away wins because it's just a little bit less stuff that gets dumped!
The person who gets it wins because they either enjoy the thing or enjoy the money they get from selling it.
The hardware store that sells the polyurethane that they coat it with and the wood putty they repair it with win because they get a little bit of money.
The person posting it wins, because they've helped all the other people win.
And the earth wins!
Awesome idea!
Thanks Jim for coming up with it and making it happen, and thanks Maxwell, for letting us all know.
This is great. No more feeling horrible when you see great trash you can't use - but you know someone can.
O MAN, I LOVE THIS!
Now, if only my Mac OS10 would support Google Maps
(grrrrrrrrrrr)
I'm more of a finder than a picker upper of these things now, so I guess that's okay . . . .
This guy, helps remind me that if we just use our heads a little we have the infinite ability to live more efficiently than we currently are.