Trash Man Creates Free Library Out of 20,000 Books Found in Garbage

This garbage man hated to see all the books in the trash bins of wealthier neighborhoods—so he started salvaging them to create a new library for his own neighborhood. It all began 20 years ago when Jose Alberto Gutierrez of Bogota, Colombia found a copy of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina in with the rubbish. When he … Continue reading Trash Man Creates Free Library Out of 20,000 Books Found in Garbage