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Turning New York trash into treasure

Published Sun, Mar 13, 2016 · 09:50 PM

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New York

FOR 30 years, sanitation worker Nelson Molina kept New York clean - and in the process found beauty in other people's garbage, rescuing enough condemned items to fill a warehouse.

On the second floor of a sanitation truck depot in East Harlem, he has amassed an astonishing collection of thousands of objects once chucked in the bin but now lovingly cleaned and restored.

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