Dumpster Diving – the Dumpster Pool
Filed Under: Environmental News on July 25, 2009
Some extremely creative people in New York saw a music video from a band in Georgia (the Pylons). In that video was a dumpster filled with water to make a swimming pool. So these three creative dudes started thinking…
Jocko Weyland, David Belt, and Alix Feinkind decided to repurpose some old trash recepticles (dumpsters) into swimming pools for the enjoyment of people in their neighborhood. They got three dumpsters (the large ones for construction sites), sealed the seams, put a pool liner in, and a layer of sand.
Viola! Swimming pools!
Some work with some decking, a couple of pool accessories, some floaties, and a lot of water later, it’s a public pool.
The whole project took only 12 days to complete, start to finish, and the pool officially opened on July 4th. The pools are tarped every night so someone doesn’t walk by and mistake them for a real dumpster and throw something in.
Pretty cool!
