(Ed.'s Note: The City of Brownsville would do well to emulate the recycling efforts of the gentleman in the photo above. One of our readers saw him pedaling down Central Blvd. with his cache of aluminum cans, mostly beer cans, after scavenging from dumpsters of the various nightspots and apartment complexes around town.
We have no talent for estimating the weight of the cans he is carrying on his trike, but it's a considerable amount because the cans under the plastic bans appear to have been crushed and we are told he was laboring to pedal down the street.
Wilkinson's Metals say they are paying 50 cents a pound for aluminum cans, so if he has, say 50 pounds, it will mean $25 dollars in his pocket. To some of us that would mean a lot of work for a few bucks, but wealth is relative if that's all you have. You've got to respect this man's efforts to make a buck at this humble task.)