Biotech worker and tinkerer Billy Robb has made recycling very visible. “In Kansas here we’re like a decade or two behind in recycling [incentives],” he writes, so he’s taken matters into his own hands. Robb took what I can only call a buttload of aluminum cans, cut them into sheets, made his own die, smashed them into corrugated tile shapes, and used it to roof a chicken coop!