Sylvie d’Aust drives a loop every week around west of Quebec and loads its white truck with the garbage of other people.
For her, everything is treasure.
He calls herself recycling of GRL warriors, yes, that is a girl without the ‘I’, and collects appliances from the sidewalk as a way of making fast effective and slowing what is sent to the spray.
“[The nickname] It’s like a Wonder Woman game: black-brown hair, blue eyes, “said D’Aust, who has both.”[Recycling] It is one of those things that I was passionate about and there is no doubt at all. “
That is true even when it means getting dirty. Using gloves, overalls and a coat that recycled, D’Aust will climb in garbage containers and rummage through garbage containers in second -hand local stores that allow customers to take things that were not sold or broken.
“I think it’s wonderful, it’s great. It’s less things in the garbage and going to the ground,” said André Beauchamp by Tréss by Rupert Treasures, a second -hand store where D’Aust raised two stationary bicycles in his truck.
Junk metal collection
It has been less than a year since D’Aust has been collecting junk.
“I have always passionate about recycling and the environment a lot, and that is how I can have a much greater impact, offering this service,” he said.
The idea came to her last summer while talking to a friend about recycling and discovered that Metro Scrap Metal (MSM) in Ottawa gives Scrap Metal effective.
His first business order was to clean his own backyard, a property of an acre in Chelsea that stored an oil tank, dismantled Eavestrooughs and pieces of a renewal 10 years ago. Then he cleared the courtyard of his recently widowed neighbor and took four heavy metal load trucks to be recycled.
From there, D’Aust turned it into a service in which in western Quebec customers can program so that she collects her old appliances for a rate. Recently, its municipality also had changes in its waste collection services.
“So now there is an even greater need to be accessible all the time instead of how, you know, where you have to cling to what you like once for quarter. You can call me and I will pick it up,” he said.
Sell items to reuse
Every time D’Aust has his hands in a device, he will use a magnet to see if it is steel or aluminum. Then cut the cables, which contain valuable copper, and order metals and cables in bed and the seats of your truck.
There is a discharge of responsibility on the reserve site of D’Austt that says he has permission to sell or reuse any discarded article. And that could mean that he ends at his eBay store.
“You believe it or not, when you are looking for pieces, Ebay is where you will find them,” he said.
When customers download electronics, it will investigate whether cables, remote controls or parts are valuable. If they are, she will upload them.
Scrap metal patio
Once the D’Aust truck load is full, it takes its route to AIMClage Gatineau or MSM in the ottawa East End.
There, he will throw anything made of steel to the scrap yard, which is then lifted by a large grip truck and in large trailers. From there, the contents are in cash and sell sellers to be recycled.
When customers leave scrap, each material has a price by weight and is detailed as steel, electronic waste, batteries, aluminum and copper.
In a video of the MSM owner, Wehbe Wehbe posted on Facebook, he called D’Aust his “favorite scrapper.”
“She is saving the landfill and, at the same time, brings it here, and we recycle it, and really, we are undermining the ground,” he said.
D’Aust received $ 120 on a recent tour of MSM, which was enough to cover his gas. He recently expanded his services to include property cleaning and establishing a junk fall in his home.
