"My room does look like a recycling center, " Ernst said, laughing.

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Start a forum for neighborhood improvement to transform the lot for some interesting purpose--a community garden, a playground, a recycling center, introducing something new in your neighborhood, school, or anything else.

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Iqbal used to work at a recycling center.

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Some residents took to dumping their excess trash into their recycling bins, causing bottlenecks at a local recycling center.

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We took our set to the recycling center a half dozen years ago.

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In Sayreville, a suburb about 50 minutes south of Manhattan, entire blocks were destroyed, a building collapsed and there was a fire at the recycling center.

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"Most of the people at the recycling center didn't want to be filmed, because they think it's a shameful job, " said a Chinese woman named Lilly, one of the film's subjects, speaking Cantonese through a translator while collecting a fresh haul last week near Fulton Street.

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