rubbish
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Will Garbage Bins That Charge Per Use Just Encourage Littering?
The Netherlands is rolling out some 6000 smart garbage cans that can only be used when residents scan an RFID-enabled ID card. Besides monitoring just how much rubbish people throw away, the bins will also measure and charge the user based on how much refuse they tossed.
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What Is This?
Is that a stained glass window dedicated to man’s excess? Nope. A MoMA exhibit capturing our disposable lifestyles? Sorry. A corporate logo treatment for a recycling facility? Not exactly, but it is related to turning trash into something beautiful.
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Poor Robot Vacuum Has To Suck Fukushima’s Radioactive Trash
iRobot’s best known for the robots that clean your living room, not robots that clean crippled nuclear reactors. But they leant a hand to Japan’s infamously infirm power plant for some very, very messy work.
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Scrape Table Scraps Into The Portotrash, And Not On The Floor
Oh man, I need about a dozen of these Portotrash clamps for my house. Try, I guess the clue is in the name – “porto” – but if I’m lazy enough to need an easier way to clean up crap on tables, then I’m lazy enough to want at least a hundred of them. They…