LuckyOliver Party at Ace Auto

July 13th, 2007 Alex

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LuckyOliver had its one year anniversary birthday party last night at a junkyard in SF called Ace Auto. LuckyOliver is a stock photo website where you can buy single stock images easily as opposed to other stock photo sites where you have to signup or pay for packages, etc. Ace Auto in SF is a junkyard for auto dismantling, auto recycling and computer recycling. It is also a great place for parties and events as they have a huge area as well as tons of neat artistic things to see. It was a great place to take pictures and they also have a giant Rube Goldberg machine at the junkyard. It was pretty cool to see a junkyard that has turned itself into a art/event gallery as it reuses junk and waste and turns it into an attraction. What was really surprising is how clean and organized the junkyard was and how easy it was to walk around and look at all the interesting things that they had. There was also a Mariachi band and a taco truck there.

On SFGate today, there was an article discussing how much garbage we have in the United States as we are running out of room for all the garbage we produce. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, Americans generated more than 245 million tons of trash in 2005. Unfortunately, a lot of the things we buy or use is disposable. A lot of things can also be recycled, composted and reused and that can be a good business for new technology to create energy from waste and reusing old parts and materials. There are several companies in the bay area that focus on e-recycling and try to reuse and recycle old parts from computers, monitors and other gadgets. Metal and other material can be taken from old parts and be reused for other materials which is one of the things they do at the HP Recycling Plant.

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