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carwheel10
9y ago
Not necessarily although a federal standard would help. A single big state like California could implement it and the standard would propagate itself from there.
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carwheel10
9y ago
> Where do I throw away the packaging from the Vietnamese cookies I bought while on vacation? Of course there are corner cases to be handled. But what percentage of the trash is Vietnamese cookie box and Japanese candy wrappers? In these
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carwheel10
9y ago
9 labels is too many. Also, those pictures are kind of hard to match. It needs to be dead simple: number of labels = number of bins available. Maybe number of labels can be more than number of bins by 1 or 2 at most. Secondly, use numbering
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carwheel10
9y ago
What do you think of my proposed solution I posted above?
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carwheel10
9y ago
It's even better if we move the problem of classifying from the person throwing trash to the time of manufacturing of the article. You could mark each article with #1, #2 or #3 and standardize each bin to be called bin #1, #2 or #3. Th
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carwheel10
9y ago
What do you think of my solution posted above?
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carwheel10
9y ago
It doesn't have to be "1", "2" or "3" necessarily, it could be A, B or C or any other marker or some other icon. This system could be adaptable as well. So suppose, you have only 2 bins, say bins: #1 and #
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carwheel10
9y ago
Here's the problem with current trash UX: 1. Person walks up with trash in hand to 3 bins. Each bin has a poster with pictures of items which are meant for that bin. Each person has to make O(n) comparisons for each of the bin and then