Rent a Dumpster

Looking for a place to swim, but none of your friends have a swimming pool? You need a refreshing way to relax on those hot summer days, and a smarter way to save your money rather than spend it on pool memberships.  A large group of jet setting young professionals in new york city have come up with this new craze known as dumpster pools. The whole idea behind this is that you rent a dumpster and fill it with water (after being treated) and dive in INSTANT POOL

As much of the East Coast is being hit with above 90 degree temperatures, many people are jumping in any water they can. But for some New York City residents, dumpster diving has taken on a whole new meaning as they jump in a pool made out of three commercial dumpsters.

In an industrial lot in Brooklyn some enterprising city dwellers decided they’d had enough of the summer heat and lack of public pools and created a urban country club consisting of grills, beach chairs and, of course, a pool that was once a garbage dumpster.

New York-based company Macro Sea is behind the project and the Jocko Weyland, the company’s project manager, told the magazine ReadyMade that the Brooklyn project was a prototype that the company hopes can be expanded to other areas.

“We would like to do them in the parking lots of the strip malls and show people that with not too much expense you can creatively reuse what is basically considered urban detritus and make something really cool and fun and also fairly easy to put together,” Weyland told the magazine.

Diving is probably not be encouraged in the dumpster pool (as the water is less than six feet deep), but in Madison, Wisconsin, one group is advising residents to be careful if they do go dumpster diving.

When taking things out of a commercial dumpster or items that are placed on the curb for removal, the Madison Tenant Resource Center reminds people that all items should be checked for pests and says, “No matter what they look like, leave upholstered items on the curb!”

there is also another blogger that gives more in depth detail on how this whole dumpster pool idea gets carried out here.