Wednesday, 30th of April: „Lazy Day “

After so much „Sightseeing “ we had earned one rest day. Grady explained to us that a lot in America is „Plastic-Fantastic “ : The Americans are a waste-oriented society. And others, as for example Grady, profit from it. He went with us to a kind of garbage dump where everyone can deliver  old things. They are sorted here, used, decontaminated if needed – or, however, resold. Since this dump has a shop in which one can get a lot of bargains. Many things, as for example piece of furniture, have small quirks, however, with some talent they can be transformed again into pieces of jewellery. Between 1 and 5 dollars is the regular price for used pieces of furniture. Grady bought a 50 dollars  sofa here, upholstered it and sold it for a couple of thousand. Every hour what´s on offer changes in the shop and the big outside campus, because constantly pickup trucks and delivery vans are bringing new „waste“. More than one million dollars the dump earns every month with the waste of the customers.