"MIT to track 3,000 pieces of Seattle trash" by Associated Press | September 14, 2009
SEATTLE - Using an electronic tracking device about the size of a matchbook, MIT researchers are tagging about 3,000 pieces of Seattle trash to get people thinking about what they throw away and where it ends up.
“Seeing where your trash goes allows you to change your behavior,’’ said Assaf Biderman, associate director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s SENSEable City lab and a project leader....
It is ALWAYS SOME AGENDA-PUSHING behind even the best of intentions.
“We’re definitely a throw-away society that sets it and forgets it,’’ said Brett Stav, planning and development specialist with Seattle Public Utilities. “A lot of people forget about what happens to the things that they throw away....’’
The first thing to run through my mind was all the maimed soldiers that return and can't get their disability or health payments.
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I know one thing I'll be throwing away later, readers.
Related: Continent-size toxic stew of plastic trash fouling swath of Pacific
How come Globe never reported that?
The SIZE of TEXAS?!!!!!!
