San Francisco’s Trash Company Marks 35 Years Of Stunning Art Made Of Recycled Garbage With Free Gallery Opening

San Francisco’s Trash Company Marks 35 Years Of Stunning Art Made Of Recycled Garbage With Free Gallery Opening

San Francisco’s Trash Company Marks 35 Years Of Stunning Art Made Of Recycled Garbage With Free Gallery Opening Recology Recycling Center, where ‘junk’ is being dropped off, and Artists-in-Residence may scavenge Inside San Francisco’s 47-acre recycling and recovery center at the dump, where small businesses and residents can bring truckloads of cast-offs, artists have special access to a churning, ever-changing landscape where detritus from all over the city is sorted and processed. In fact, more than 100 tons of material enter the building every day. Besides just being the waste management company, Recology’s mission is to conserve resources and reduce waste, inspiring a more mindful relationship with the things we throw away. To that end, we need artists. Since 1990, Recology has run an Artist-in-Residence program that supports Bay Area artists, giving them freedom to scavenge materials for use in creating artworks. The four-month residency also provides artists with access to studio spac…