Reticulating Splines

Constructive vandalism: my contribution to the “Eating In Public” project in Hawaii that encourages people to put whatever goods they can spare in these designated receptacles making it easier for others in need to access them. I put this up at the corner of Kapahulu and Campbell a couple blocks from a HI-5 recycling center where it got some good use, but it was taken down a couple months later.

I’m shocked (though not all that surprised) by the amount of disdain some people have toward these things. Some [who are clearly out of touch with lower social classes] consider them a stain on the city and call in complaints or personally take them down. As I was leaving what was left of a slightly expired bag of cereal in this bin a week after putting it up, a passerby rather angrily questioned me about it, then took the cereal and threw it in the trash as I left. I don’t get that mentality. Not to mention, the trash can it’s connected to is one of many our local government wasted millions of dollars installing, as they’re supposed to dissuade people from vandalizing with graffiti. Recycling bins, however, have to be made unofficially by volunteers who are persecuted for it.