Man turns Mardi Gras trash into cash
One person's Fat Tuesday trash is another's treasure -- especially for Michael Smith, who cleans up and cashes in on the post-Mardi Gras aluminum cans tossed in the streets of his St. Louis neighborhood. Smith, who used to be homeless, says he can collect around 400 pounds of cans after the festivities, netting "over a couple hundred dollars."
This type of entrepreneurial environmentalism could prove useful in the Big Easy, where more than 25 million pounds of petroleum-based plastic beads are abandoned annually in the French Quarter.
Mardi Gras mess: sinful waste or just part of the revelry?
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Mike Gallagher
Freelance writer with a passion for travelling
