When I was walking around recently, I also ran into a self-service trash disposal/compactor installed on the street called iTrash (cute video https://www.youtub

When I was walking around recently, I also ran into a self-service trash disposal/compactor installed on the street called iTrash (cute video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA-clGCo5YI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA-clGCo5YI). For trash, you pay by weight, and for recycling, you receive a small amount of money in return. This would be the high tech solution; it seems like they're piloting it at one location only. Whether these would save money or not if deployed en masse is an operations research problem, but the more interesting question is whether citizens would wax nostalgic if their musical garbage trucks started to disappear, and if that would influence folks' sense of civic duty.