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Now you doubled CO2 emissions of your fleet and incentivize people to litter or dump in public trash cans. A better solution would be human or robotic waste so
by mikec3010 8y ago
Now you doubled CO2 emissions of your fleet and incentivize people to litter or dump in public trash cans.
A better solution would be human or robotic waste sorting at the dump, or clean incineration.
- titzer 8y agoAgree completely. Saw it firsthand in Fiji. City trash fee just drives people to dump in the bushes. My suggestion of adding dumpsters was met with concerns about reducing tax revenues. Yeah, they don't have dumpsters because they are afraid people will put trash in them, FFS :(
- moltar 8y agoI’ve teavelled entire Taiwan by car and did not notice any excessive dumping.
- wutbrodo 8y agoYes, and that's a dataset of n=1. Things like littering have a million different factors go into them, including culture. It's not unreasonable to think that in other cultures, increasing the incentive to litter would in fact increase litter.
- quantum_magpie 8y agoAn exponential fine on littering would, however, absolutely destroy any incentives on littering. Starting with $10^n, where n is the n'th time you are caught littering. Also a corporate fine for dumping trash and waste illegally, $1000^n. It really is not hard to take care of your environment!
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- SapporoChris 8y agoI have to counter regarding incentives with my own annecdote. I was buying a lot of sparkling water and got tired of collecting and recycling the empties. I bought a popular carbonating unit. I suspect culture will have a huge impact on how well the solution works. I would love robotic waste sorting, I hope someone is working on that!
- neuralRiot 8y agoPerhaps a color coding for different materials would make consumer and robotic sorting simpler.
- mikec3010 8y agoThis or a very primitive 4 bit rfid