Have you ever seen a book on the side of the road and had an internal crisis about whether to pick it up and risk a deadly infectious disease or leave it to be eaten by rats only to lead to an extremely intelligent rat population that will eventually take over the planet? Either way, it’s a lose-lose situation, death by disease or by genius rats.

Garbage collectors in Çankaya Municipality in Turkey have found a solution to this very common dilemma.

Çankaya is one of 25 municipalities in Turkey’s capital Ankara. With 124 districts, 921.999 residents, and a daily population of over two million, it’s safe to say the municipalities garbage collectors have a lot on their hands. However, despite their daily grind, they started a love project on the side: a library composed of thrown away books.