Selling garbage through an automatic machine can also be profitable

37-year-old Christopher Goodwin works as a garbage truck driver. He crawls on his knees, picking up small trash and shoves it into transparent plastic capsules. And successfully sells these balls with junk!

In late 2005, Goodwin invented "Treshbol» ( Trashball ), that it is so glorified that the story of the artist-scavenger published the New York Times and gave the BBC.

He installed in one theater cafe a vending machine from what is called "gumball machines".

Usually with such machines everything is predictable: you throw coins and you get bubble gum-candies. A version of Christopher allows you to get unexpected garbage in balls with a diameter of 1.54 cm - 6.5 rubles (25 US cents) apiece. And today about three thousand capsules with trash have been sold out: a receipt from an ATM. Polaroid image of the 1970s. Danish coin. African postage stamp. A pair of yellowed wisdom teeth. An old Aeroflot flyer. The scribbled napkin from the restaurant. A telegram dryly announcing the birth of a boy. Broken toy. Page from the diary of a girl.


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