THIS is what I'm talking about.

http://www.technologyforthepoor.com/UrbanAgriculture/Garden.htm
We all have plastic crap that is very difficult or impossible to recycle. Some of us, me in particular, live in really low income areas. Why not put that stuff to work? Grow some healthy food in the midst of our Wal-mart and KFC land. I talked with a neighbor who has lived down the road from our house for 40 years. He remembers when there were orchards and fields everywhere. I asked him what he thought of my dream of converting some empty lots around us into gardens. In addition to thinking I am particularly strange, he thought that the gardens wouldn't do well. Apparently the amount of garbage and oil dumped in those areas has been a major problem for some years. But that doesn't mean that we can't try or use that ground to hold containers!!! I am just astounded at the amount of land that people own and pay to have companies come and spray chemicals on. There is a full acre lot down the road from us that is fenced in and is a jungle! Twice a year a team of workers come in and take it to the ground. SUCH a waste, especially in such a poor area. rant rant rant.