18 Nov Necessity is the mother of recycling

A bit of clever, grass-roots engineering borne of necessity:

The source of this video, which is getting lots of traction on Facebook, is unclear. Posted on YouTube by Moez Hassen, it was re-posted to Facebook by Radio Gaza, although it’s not clear the makeshift recycling facility is located in the Palestinian exclave.

Toward the end, it bears the stamp of Yok Böyle Birsey, a whimsical Turkish website which translates as “no such thing.” The package of twine shown at the end bears the label corda de varal, which is Turkish for something akin to, “Let’s reach into the core.” Portuguese for “clothesline rope.”

My hunch is all of these are re-postings. Perhaps Contrarian readers will have better luck tracking down its origins and confirming the location of the ingenious cordage plant. Meanwhile, enjoy!

[Update: That was my original hunch. My new one is that the recycling facility is in Brazil, and in that amazing way the internet has, word of it reached us via Turkey, the Gaza Strip, and the nice outreach officer at ACAP Cape Breton, whose FB feed brought it to my attention. Thanks to the two Richards who wrote to point out that corda de varal is a Portuguese phrase.]

(H/T: JEC.)