South Bay recycler cleans up Fiesta Hermosa
The last day of Fiesta Hermosa is the busiest, and no one has to tell Dave Felix. He collects bottles and cans from businesses and recycles them. He’s been loading up the barrels on his truck for a year now, after beating a brain tumor and changing the direction of his life. And if the pier businesses keep squabbling with the city over trash, Felix might find more work downtown. “It’s not the most glamorous job in the world, but I’d rather do this than anything,” Felix said while sorting bottles into barrels atop his truck. Felix graduated from Redondo Union in 1988, married his high school sweetheart and went on to work as a sales representative for a major food service company. He was successful but his life was unbalanced, leading to a brain tumor. After 13 years, he took some time off, had surgery and a month later began recycling. He designed the award-winning recycling system at his child’s school, Jefferson Elementary in Redondo, which lowered daily trash output from 16 bins at lunch to two. And he works with businesses to do the same: Produce less waste by recycling more, including glass, plastic, cardboard, metals and paper. Felix also gives a small percentage of the…
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