In case you missed the story on NPR: here's an excerpt. Read the rest over here.

On an industrial lot in Brooklyn, N.Y., three garbage bins have been
transformed into swimming pools. They're set in what looks like an
urban country club — with tent cabanas, barbecue grills and a dozen
plastic beach chairs.

The
idea of swimming in a trash container grosses you out? Think again.
They're clean. The bins are lined with thick sheets of plastic, and the
water is chlorinated and filtered, just like what goes in an inground
pool.

The company behind the pools is Macro Sea, a Manhattan real
estate developer. Jocko Weyland, the guy in charge of the pool project,
says Macro Sea got the idea from a rock musician in Georgia.

The
pools are behind a chain-link fence in the Carroll Gardens
neighborhood. The 5 1/2 foot-deep containers are in an H-formation with
a wooden deck built around them. There's also a shallower kiddie pool.

News
of the Brooklyn trash bin swimming pools first surfaced on a blog for
ReadyMade magazine, which helps do-it-yourselfers use familiar objects
in new ways.

"It's a Dumpster. It's not trying to pretend it's not a Dumpster, you know," Weyland says.