Mr. Orta was born in San Antonio, Tex., one of 12 children. But Mr. Orta doesn’t look at the architecture. “How do you say it?” William Washington, one of Mr. Orta’s trash-picking colleagues, remarked one night. “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”Mr. Orta’s other recent discoveries: phones, iPads, three wristwatches and bags of marijuana. In late August or September, as participants return from the annual Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert, Mr. Orta says he often finds abandoned bicycles covered in fine sand.

Source: New York Times April 07, 2019 06:56 UTC