Exploring
Melt the cans into ingots. A small foundry that turns the metal 'waste' stream into the commons' raw material — fired by our own wood.
Aluminium melts well below what a wood- or charcoal-fired furnace reaches — and this land grows the fuel. So instead of bagging cans for a truck that drives them hundreds of kilometres to be 'recycled', the commons runs a small foundry: cans and scrap aluminium in, clean ingots out, re-cast into hardware, fittings, tools, and parts we actually need. 'Waste' becomes the workshop's raw material.
Pair it with a forge for steel — repairs, hinges, brackets, tools — and the commons can make and mend a great deal of its own hardware. It's also a craft and a draw: real skills, taught and shared.
Foundry work means fume control, fire safety, and skill — it lives on the already-disturbed built-commons ground, run by people who know what they're doing (a natural home for a guild). Exploratory for now; the appetite is real.
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