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Why Would You Want to Swim in a Dumpster?!

By Jac Chebatoris | Saturday, July 25, 2009 8:00 AM ET

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It's hard to stay current, what with all the technology out there (iPod, iPhone, iLike rotary dials still...) and the warp-speed of culture in general, but this new wrinkle in leisure activities might have more than a few scratching their heads.

The place to see and be seen this summer? Your neighborhood dumpster-turned-swimming pool.

(Pause for collective sigh of relief from the suburban dwellers who have, you know, real pools.)

This makeshift place to cool off from the heat, and just be cool (all the kids are doing it!), The New York Times reports, came about from the minds of some enterprising developers who found a surplus of "newish" (yuck, maybe?) Dumpsters. In an effort to repurpose underused materials "with urban renewal in mind," they installed filtration systems into them, cleaned them out and lined them with plastic, filled them with water from an aquifer in New Jersey and there you have it, a hipster pool party.

Check out photos here of the insta-pools.

Read the NYT piece here.

[Via Grist]

Photo via Sandy Yin@sxc.hu

Talking to Stevie Nicks, Etta James and Chrissie Hynde were just some of the highlights of the eight years that Jac Chebatoris spent at Newsweek magazine reporting and writing about music, pop culture and celebrities.

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