Halo!
Welcome to our latest edition of Money, Trash, Homes. We hope everyone had a fruitful summer. It was a sight to see everyone in Bed-Stuy both move in and out of their homes at the very same time. The stuff shed kept us quite busy.
Anywho, til next summer. For now, enjoy the newsletter.
New York renters spend $12 million each year storing tote bags in their apartment. The average rent is $4.60 per square foot. A tote bag takes up 1.2 square feet of space, or $5.52 of rent. With over 2 million rentals, we get $12 million in rent spent on totes. Get back that precious space - give your bags to a food pantry.
Some bits on those bags. They are sustainable. They can be washed 125 times. They are a “thermoplastic”, made of polypropylene (PP / plastic #5) meaning the bags can be melted back down and remade into something else. Yet the closest place to recycle them is in Woodbridge, NJ (for locals only). Instead - stop forgetting yours when you get to the grocery store.
It’ll rain this fall. And it’s the windiest time of the year. So expect random dudes, popping up out of manholes, selling cheap umbrellas that will break in a light breeze. Don’t throw them into the trash - make a tote out of them.
-- Q + S (Cues)