The aptly town, popularly known as “The Town that Garbage Built” is up for sale. The town is home to 60 residents, the town was once home to about 400 employees of the American Reduction Company. It operated a plant that processed tons of garbage a day from Pittsburgh, before the city opened its own facility in 1936.

Currently, those 60 residents live in 19 houses made up of bricks. The works would render animal carcasses and separate metal carcasses, and separate metal from household waste for re-sale.

“This was the original recycling plant,” said David Stawovy (67) who owns Reduction with his three siblings.

David’s father John, owned an adjoining farm in 1948 and he was thinking about purchasing one of the larger houses in Reduction for his growing family. At a point, he had 28 houses to choose from.

John son’s David said that his parents wanted their own place, and the man who was selling the houses said 'Why don’t you buy them all?'”

John ended up doing just that, he paid 10,000 USD for the place, lock, stock and barrel. It was a decision, which he would never regret, or at least never admitted regretting, he said.

“He never complained. He made a living on it,” said the Stawovy.

Stawovy said that only foundation of the processing plant is left over. Once the town contained a dumped bottle, which was a collectible treasure, but it was wiped clean years ago.

Stawovy’s advancing age and the nursing home care that his parents needed before their recent deaths, led the family to put Reduction up for sale. He needs to sell the property, so that his siblings can cash out their shares of the inheritance.

“We’d like to travel,” he said. “We don’t need the aggravation.”

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