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The centre processes discarded items from the largest corporations in the country, including Safaricom, IBM and Samsung.
In the process, construction crews and library staff have turned up dozens of discarded items, often hidden in tight spaces.
The derived performances are used to estimate buffer capacity for a shredding unit in a recycling plant, where discarded items (white goods) are of random size.
They are not paid by the state, relying instead on donations from the communities they serve and on meager profits from the sale of discarded items.
For at least 15 years, maybe 20, Mr. Wangensteen had known Mr. Temeczko, a Polish immigrant who prowled alleys looking for discarded items he might repair and sell.
He studies the surface of the blacktop, watches a milk truck and dog pass by, then lists the flora and discarded items of the vicintity.
But the best part of the book may be the affectionate anecdotes the couple tell about how and where they found each of the discarded items.
All the materials from the discarded items, if they had been recycled and recovered, would have been worth $55 billion, the study found.
In nearby Wood Green, looters still browsed - one man could be seen examining vitamin supplements at a health food store - and the sidewalk was littered with discarded items.
And with help from neighbors, she cleaned out the basement, clearing it of dusty sinks, old televisions and other discarded items.
