It is a heady, uplifting place and one's spirit soars at the inarguable logic of Rodia whose heroes were Galileo, Michelangelo and Columbus, a dreamer, but also a doer, someone who was able to sift and sort debris and make it come out as art, his way.
People were sorting through debris to salvage community members' mementos.
The subways would be crowded; and more work sorting through debris and filling out insurance claims awaited.
Knott said emergency personnel were going house to house, sorting through debris and looking for other victims.
Instead of putting out the trash in messy barrels, we take part in a weekly exercise of sorting our debris into color-coded bins for glass, paper, plastics, and even compostable food scraps.
Two months after the hurricane, Phillips's daughter Noel Fell and her husband were sorting through debris (it included a bunch of giant sequinned frog heads, from Mardi Gras, which the winds had strewn across the yard) when they looked down the beach and saw three strangers coming toward No. 222.
It's more about sorting the debris.
Tasks included sorting through debris, recovering human remains, searching for evidence from the terrorist attacks, and providing food and counseling services.
A Landfill worker, who sorted through debris, said, "Occasionally there was some dust from machinery moving around and stuff coming down the conveyer belt".
While some Germanwings Flight 9525 investigators sorted through debris in the Alps, others were in apartments and hospitals and doctors' offices, seeking fragments of Andreas Lubitz's life.
That's because the group went beyond its original work and has now sorted the debris by both its energy level and scattering angle.
