Urbana's original Dumpster diver turns trash into treasure
By Julie Wurth
Sunday August 17, 2008
John Dixon
Jim Payne recovers a fan motor from a bin outside an apartment house in his Urbana neighborhood. Payne will recycle the steel and copper in the fan.
URBANA – Jim Payne is a one-man recycling program.
He walks the streets each morning, as he has for 25 years, sifting through your trash for the treasures within.
Payne is waging a private crusade to stop the Earth – or at least his corner of Champaign-Urbana – from becoming the desolate, trash-strewn planet in the Disney film "WALL-E" (which he liked, despite having no use for TV).
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