{"id":4166,"date":"2012-02-08T08:58:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T13:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=4166"},"modified":"2012-02-08T08:58:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T13:58:56","slug":"pups-giant-repurposing-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2012\/02\/08\/pups-giant-repurposing-project\/","title":{"rendered":"PUP&#039;s Giant Repurposing Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 What do you do with a lemon such as 5-6 miles of left over fabric from the giant Super Bowl banners in Indianapolis?<br \/>\n<strong>A:\u00a0<\/strong> You make lemonade, or if you are <strong>Michael Bricker &#8217;04 <\/strong>and <strong>People for Urban Progress<\/strong>, you repurpose the banners as useful items.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Indianapolis Star<\/em> reports this as the largest recovery effort going on now that the Super Bowl is over.\u00a0 &#8220;People for Urban Progress [PUP], the company that recovered the RCA Dome materials, will use the fabric to create bags and possibly shower curtains, said Michael Bricker &#8217;04<strong>,<\/strong> chief innovator.\u00a0 He said he hopes to start selling items in a month.\u00a0 Check out their website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peopleup.org\/\">peopleup.org<\/a>, in about a month to purchase the recycled banner products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 What do you do with a lemon such as 5-6 miles of left over fabric from the giant Super Bowl banners in Indianapolis? A:\u00a0 You make lemonade, or if you are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}